clean break principle the principle that upon DIVORCE the former spouses should settle their financial affairs in such a way that finan- cial relations between them come to an end. This may be achieved by

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clean hands

either a property adjustment order, an order for PERIODICAL PAYMENTS

for a specified limited time or a lump sum order.

• mutual error
• mutual wills
• mutuum
• Napoleonic Code
• National Assembly for Wales
• nationality
• naturalisation
• natural law
• natural person
• nautae caupones stabularii
• navigation
• nec
• necessity
• negative clearance
• negligence
• negotiable instrument
• negotiate
• negotiorum gestio
• nemo dat quod non habet
• nemo debet lucupletari ex aliena jactura
• nemo judex in causa sua
• nervous shock
• nexus
• nobile officium
• no case to answer