This suggests that they were local landless pensioners who had no-one else to look after them and so were allocatedbedandboardin the almonry.
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The woman is entitled only tobedandboard; women are regarded as chattels in the home and economically and legally as second-rate citizens.
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Some provide onlybedandboard, others help with supportive or personal care.
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I think nothing more tragic can be conceived than to compel a woman to cohabit atbedandboardwith a man who has served a long term of imprisonment.
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Separation frombedandboardwas allowed in exceptional circumstances, usually adultery.
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They normally providebedandboard, that is, at least some meals as well as accommodation.
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These spiritual mates, dissolve, or disannul, all former marriage connections; and many of them bedandboardtogether, to the exclusion of all former vows.
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She was granted a divorce frombedandboard, with alimony, in 1908.
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There was no divorce, but separation frombedandboardwas allowed in exceptional circumstances.
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