| Crime and criminals - 1792 - 638 pages
...not too haftily abondoned the consortium? What merely •wounds the mental feelings, is in few cafes to be admitted, •where they are not accompanied with bodily injury, either aQual or menaced. Mere aufterity of temper, petulance of manners, rudenefs of language, a want of civil... | |
| Church of England. Diocese of London. Consistory Court, John Haggard - Ecclesiastical law - 1822 - 584 pages
...bly lost; and whether the party quitting has not too hastily abandoned the consortium ? 2dJutyi790. What merely wounds the mental feelings is in few cases...bodily injury either actual or menaced. Mere austerity qf temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation,... | |
| James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1827 - 544 pages
...nnH show such a state of personal danger as that the duties of the married life cannot be discharged. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to that cruelty... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 694 pages
...ca«es to be admitted, where it is not accompanied with bodilj injury, either actual or menaced. Meie austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention or accommodation, even occasional sallies of passiuii, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not... | |
| Great Britain, Great Britain. Courts - Divorce - 1832 - 612 pages
...upon its virtue, there may be much unhappiness in it which human laws cannot undertake to remove. » What merely wounds the mental feelings is in few cases to be admit-' iebv.i', 'ted, where they are not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual , Still less... | |
| T. M. Lalor, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 712 pages
...of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, " cannot amount to legal cruelty ; and that which merely " wounds the mental feelings is, in few cases,...accompanied with bodily injury either " actual or menaced." We hnve thus a pretty clear idea of what is and what is not cruelty in the legal sense of the term.... | |
| Alexander Walker - Divorce - 1840 - 452 pages
...for a separation, and show that the duties of the married life cannot be safely discharged. " Where austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to that cruelty... | |
| Leonard Shelford - Divorce - 1841 - 532 pages
...attended with the danger of a repetition of personal mischief.^) What wounds mental Feelings.] — What merely wounds the mental feelings is in few cases...austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of lanF *433 1 8uage, a want of c'v'l attention and accommodation, LJ *even occasional sallies of passion,... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847 - 556 pages
...grave and weighty, and show a state of personal danger, incompatible with the duties of married life ; mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to the cruelty... | |
| Law - 1850 - 600 pages
...the married life can be discharged. What falls short of this is with great caution to be admitted. What merely wounds the mental feelings is in few cases to be admitted, when they are not accompanied with bodily injuries, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper,... | |
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