Thirty-five Years in the Divorce Court

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Little, Brown,, 1911 - 12 oldal
 

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261. oldal - What is the matter," says you ? I swan ! it's hard to tell! Most of the years behind us we've passed by very well ; I have no other woman — she has no other man ; Only we've lived together as long as ever we can.
262. oldal - And, lyin' together in silence, perhaps we will agree ; And, if ever we meet in heaven, I wouldn't think it queer If we loved each other the better because we quarrelled here.
115. oldal - Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? And the reply of Socrates, to him who asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable, that "whether he should choose one or not, he would repent it.
124. oldal - The courts of law have always refused to recognize as binding contracts to which the consent of either party has been obtained by fraud or duress, and the validity of a contract of marriage must be tested and determined in precisely the same manner as that of any other contract.
261. oldal - We've been a-gathering this for years, a little at a time. There was a stock of temper we both had for a start, Although we...
10. oldal - ... ought to have pursued. You should have gone to the Ecclesiastical Court and there obtained against your wife a decree a mensa et thoro. You should then have brought an action in the Courts of Common Law and recovered, as no doubt you would have recovered, damages against your wife's paramour. Armed with these decrees you should have approached the legislature, and obtained an act of Parliament, which would have rendered you free, and legally competent to marry the person whom you have taken on...
186. oldal - ... but she was not permitted to disburse anything for her own necessary expenses ; every article of dress, every trifle that she required, had to be put down on paper, and her husband provided it if he thought proper.
190. oldal - her legal existence and authority are in a manner lost;" when Petersdorff asserts that "the husband has the right of imposing such corporeal restraints as he may deem necessary," and Bacon that "the husband hath, by law, power and dominion over his wife, and may keep her by force within the bounds of duty, and may beat her, but not in a violent or cruel manner;
261. oldal - Was something concerning heaven — a difference in our creed: We arg'ed the thing at breakfast, we arg'ed the thing at tea; And the more we arg'ed the question the more we didn't agree...
126. oldal - Whenever from natural weakness of intellect, or from fear — whether reasonably entertained or not — either party is actually in a state of mental incompetence to resist pressure improperly brought to bear, there is no more consent than in the case of a person of stronger intellect and more robust courage yielding to a more serious danger.

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