 | Richard Thomas Tidswell, Sir Ralph Daniel Makinson Littler - 1860 - 376 Seiten
...injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manner, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even...high moral offences in the marriage state undoubtedly ; but they are not that cruelty against •which the law can relieve. . . . Still less is it' cruelty... | |
 | Michael Thompson - 1863 - 472 Seiten
...in•ury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, will not amount to legal cruelty ; a fortiori, the denial of litlle indulgencies and particular accommodations,... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - 1868 - 984 Seiten
...injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manner, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even...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... | |
 | William Leggo - 1876 - 1132 Seiten
...manners, petulance of temper, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention, even occasional sallies, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount...they are high moral offences in the marriage state, not innocent in any state, but still they do not amount to such legal cruelty, against which the law... | |
 | India - 1877 - 1088 Seiten
...Holden T. Holden, 1 Hagg. 458. " Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manner, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even...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 - 1879 - 750 Seiten
...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 - 1879 - 1054 Seiten
...petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even i« casional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty. Still less is conduct cruelty where it wounds not the natural feelings, but the acquired feelings,... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.), Rowland M. Stover - 1884 - 658 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 520 Seiten
...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... | |
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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,... 
