 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
 | S. M. Waddams - History - 1992 - 400 pages
...arrangement was made in favour of Lady Byron when the articles of 19 'Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention...threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty.' Per Sir W. Scott, in Evans v. Evans, note 16 above. In Harris v. Harris (1813), 2 Phill Ecc 111, the... | |
 | Michael Grossberg - History - 1996 - 316 pages
...matrimonial cruelty. His words offered Ellen little solace: "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... | |
 | David Trotter - Arts, Modern - 2000 - 360 pages
...Eiuns v. Fauns er790l, and still in force seventy years later, 'Mere austetity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention...do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal crueltyi they are high moral offences in the marriage state undoubtedly, not innocent surely in any... | |
 | Kate Lawson, Lynn Shakinovsky - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 216 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Foyster - History - 2005 - 300 pages
...not accompanied by bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention...high moral offences in the marriage-state undoubtedly . . . but still they are not that cruelty against which the law can relieve . . . Still less is it... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1828 - 630 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 married state undoubtedly, not innocent surely in any state of life, but still they are not that cruelty,... | |
 | Bar associations - 1924 - 670 pages
...Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language or want of civil attention or accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion...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... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 778 pages
...of cruel and inhuman treatment. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manner, rudeness of language, want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional...threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty. Freeman v. Freeman, 31 Wis. 2-18 ; Evan* v. Evan*, 4 Eng. Ecc. Rep. 311; Cricldon v. Oncldon, 78 Wis.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1853 - 518 pages
...to cruelty, such as a "mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a wont of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional...of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm— (high moral offences in the marriage state undoubtedly, and not innocent surely in any state of life),"... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1158 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...accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if tlify du not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty; they are high moral offenses m the... | |
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