Enoch Arden law

The Enoch Arden law is a legal precedent in the United States that grants a divorce or a legal exemption so that a person can remarry, if his or her spouse has been absent without explanation for a certain number of years, typically seven.

After seven years the missing spouse can be declared legally dead.

The "Enoch Arden doctrine" is named after Tennyson's melodrama Enoch Arden.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Enoch Arden doctrine". Cornell University Law School. Retrieved 9 July 2012.


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