Definition
Rimonii does not appear as a recognized legal term in English or American law. The term is not defined in standard legal dictionaries, treatises, or primary sources, and no entry under this heading exists in the Law Mind corpus.
The source material provided under this heading in Rapalje & Lawrence relates entirely to DIVORCE and its subcategories — divorce a mensa et thoro and divorce a vinculo matrimonii — and appears to have been misattributed or mislabeled. The content supplied is a fragment of the Rapalje & Lawrence entry on divorce, not a definition of "rimonii" as an independent term.
Common Confusion
Rimonii is most likely a corruption of matrimonii, the Latin genitive appearing in the phrase a vinculo matrimonii (from the bond of marriage). Researchers should not treat "rimonii" as an independent legal concept. Locate the full phrase in context before drawing any interpretive conclusions.
Why It Matters in Research
Researchers encountering "rimonii" in a legal context should treat it as a likely abbreviation, transcription error, or OCR artifact. The most probable source of confusion is the Latin phrase divorce a vinculo matrimonii, where "matrimonii" is the genitive form of matrimonium (marriage). Corrupt or abbreviated transcriptions of that phrase — particularly in older printed materials subject to optical character recognition errors or manuscript abbreviation — can produce garbled fragments that superficially resemble standalone terms.
If you are researching a historical document containing "rimonii," examine the surrounding text for references to divorce, nullity, or marital bond. The fragment almost certainly belongs to a vinculo matrimonii or a mensa et thoro phrasing. See the DIVORCE A VINCULO MATRIMONII and DIVORCE A MENSA ET THORO entries for the substantive law those phrases carry.
Historical Dictionary Support
Rapalje & Lawrence contains no entry for "rimonii" as a term of art. The source material provided under this heading is a fragment of the dictionary's DIVORCE entry, which distinguishes between English and American usage of nullity and dissolution terminology and cross-references Blackstone's Commentaries at 1 Bl. Com. 440. No other historical legal dictionary in the Law Mind corpus — including Bouvier, Black, or Burrill — carries an entry under this heading.