| INNOCENTPARTY | In law, the side which successfully obtained a divorce decree under the old system of matrimonial offence (8,5) |
| ROALD | Forename of the leader of the expedition which successfully reached the South Pole in 1911 (5) |
| UKASE | Decree under 3 with the force of law (5) |
| RIGHTHANDMAN | Dexter's one of the side, which is a great help to the skipper (5-4,3) |
| SUNBEAM | Title on the side, which is enlightening (7) |
| TRIM | Tidy bit of matrimonial bliss (4) |
| TRUISM | 'Honestly, no energy' is start of matrimonial platitude (6) |
| ARRAIGNMENT | In law, the bringing of a person before a court to answer a criminal charge (11) |
| RUNDALE | Manage to get down in the valley, creating an old system of land holding (7) |
| MORTMAIN | In law, the state or condition of property held inalienably by a corporation, derived from a word for 'dead hand' |
| LIEN | In law, the right to keep possession of property until the owner pays a debt (4) |
| FEUDALISM | Reworked sum and failed in the old system (9) |
| PURVIEW | In law, the body of a statute, containing the enacting clauses |
| HEARING | In law, the presentation of a matter before a tribunal (7) |
| FOOTPOUNDSECOND | Infantry beat subsidiary units in old system of measures (4,5,6) |
| FREEHOLD | In law, the permanent and absolute tenure of land or property with freedom to dispose of it at will |
| GRAVAMEN | In law, the part of a charge weighing most heavily against an accused person; from Latin, 'to load' (8) |
| STANDI | In law, the right of an individual or entity to bring an action before a court (6) |
| LOCUS | In law, the right of an individual or entity to bring an action before a court (5) |
| POSTALORDERS | Job for gangster with contracts for old system of transferring money (6,6) |
