 What merely wounds the mental feelings is in few cases to be admitted, where they are not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation,...  The American Jurist: And Law Magazine - Page 3701843Full view - About this book
 | India - Criminal law - 1877 - 1088 pages
...perhaps her life. — Holden T. Holden, 1 Hagg. 458. " Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manner, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and...threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty. . . . Still less is it cruelty where it wounds not the natural but the acquired feelings arising from... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 750 pages
...Con., 35) Lord STOWELL said: "Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not...threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty." These things may cause discomfort, mental anguish and suffering, but in the language of the case last... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law - 1879 - 1054 pages
...ground for a separation. Lawrence P. Lawrence, 8 Paii/f, 207. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even iŤ casional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 934 pages
...accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manner, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and...sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily barm, do not amount to legal cruelty; they are high moral offenses in the marriage state, undoubtedly,... | |
 | Civil procedure - 1884 - 520 pages
...fear of bodjly harm ; and that mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not...threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty (Mason v. Mason, 1 Edw. Ch. 278, 292 ; Bishop on Marriage and Di.v. 4th ed. § 717, et seq. and notes... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.), Rowland M. Stover - Civil procedure - 1884 - 658 pages
...reasonable fear of bodily harm; mere austerity of temper, petulence of manners, rudeness of language, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not...threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty. While the treatment of the plaintiff by the defendant was frequently unkind, while he frequently indulged... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1214 pages
...that mere austerity of temper, petulance of manner, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not constitute cruelty. 14 Cyc. 608, and see note to Mosher v. Mosher, 12 Ь. к. л. (NS) 820. We think... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 532 pages
...accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manner, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and...not amount to legal cruelty ; they are high moral off'enses in the marriage state, undoubtedly, not innocent surely in any state of life, but still they... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 944 pages
...accompanied with l)odilyinjury,eitheractual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manner, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and...do not amount to legal cruelty; they are high moral offenses in the marriage state, undoubtKelly T. Kelly. edly, not innocent surely in any state of life,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 892 pages
...relation as 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 against which the law will relieve. Nor will a wife be divorced from a husband who is... | |
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