 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
 | Frederick Stroud - Law - 1903 - 838 pages
...not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention...legal cruelty; they are high moral offences in the marriage state undoubtedly, not innocent surely in any state of life, but still they are not that cruelty... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 868 pages
...not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention...legal cruelty; they are high moral offences in the marriage state, undoubtedly; not innocent, surely, in any state of life; but still, they are not that... | |
 | William John Dixon - Desertion - 1908 - 590 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...legal cruelty: they are high moral offences in the marriage state undoubtedly — not (u) See Adultery, Evidence, post, legal cruelty, preparatory to... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1176 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 offenses In the marriage state undoubtedly, not innocent surely In any state of life, but still they... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 630 pages
...Evans, 1 Hog. Con. 35, 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." The court then went on to say that these things may cause discomfort, mental anguish and suffering,... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - Law - 1910 - 1330 pages
...be accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention...accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, will not amount to legal cruelty; a fortiori, the denial of little indulgences and particular accommodations,... | |
 | David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 752 pages
...not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention...do not amount to legal cruelty; they are high moral offenses in the marriage state undoubtedly, not innocent surely in any state of life, but still they... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 736 pages
...not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention,...threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty. Moyer r. Moyer, 11 Ala. 620, 623. "An act even strictly of legal cruelty, might be committed under... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1316 pages
...we quote: "The complainant in her bill of complaint alleges, as u ground for divorce from her tion and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion,...threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty. And further said that it must not be -an apprehension arising merely from an exquisite and diseased... | |
 | Hiram Morris Rogers - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1914 - 558 pages
...discharged. 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, cannot amount to legal cruelty; and that which merely wounds the mental feelings, is in few cases,... | |
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