Should Byron persist in his refusal, it was intended to institute a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court to obtain a divorce on the plea of adultery and cruelty.
There is reason to believe that a charge of adultery could not have been substantiated at that time.
Yes, it was at Venice that their adultery began, before her who had divined nothing, her whose heart was filled with inconsolable regret for her lost darling!
She had assisted in her husband's adultery with one of those illusions so complete that it seemed improbable to the indifferent and to strangers.
Although the punishment for adultery is the same for either sex, the likelihood of the adulterer's being punished is much greater if the offender be a woman than if he be a man.
Although the Ifugaos say that adultery and theft and arson are tabooed, nevertheless their attitude of mind is not the same as that toward things that are merely tabooed.
A great deal of adultery on the part of men goes unpunished.
If the widowed remarries without having first formally notified the kin of his dead spouse of his intention, or if he scandalously has sexual intercourse, he commits adultery according to Ifugao law, and must pay the gibu luktap (see sec.
Seizure of something of sufficient value to cover the fine assessed might sometimes be made, except in the cases of adultery and manslaughter.
Adultery is not punishable by the law, nor is it a ground for divorce.
With a temperature below zero, and winter huts constructed of ice, chastity is almost a necessary virtue, and adultery cannot possibly be frequent.
And this is the reason why adultery is a crime in the nineteenth century, and why cuckoldom was only treated as a joke in the seventeenth.
Why was it called cuckoldry in the seventeenth century and adultery in the nineteenth?
Molière knew as well as the moderns what adultery was!
He condemned adultery in unqualified terms and warned those present against its commission.
About this time the Prophet delivered a strong discourse on the sin of adultery and kindred crimes.
If adultery could only be made a virtue for a few years, it would lose its attractiveness and many writers would have to earn their living.
The reason is that he who kills or commits adultery is liable to be punished by the law, and he is deterred by the fear of such punishment or of the social ostracism to which he would be subject.
Women found guilty of adultery and fornication were punished at the first rise of Islam, by being literally immured.
This may refer to the charge of adultery said by the Rabbins to have been brought by Korah against Moses.
Whoever puts away his wife exposes her to the crime of adultery, and yet a man is permitted to put away a wife guilty of adultery, as if a woman guilty of adultery would no more commit adultery after she were put away.
Jesus permits divorce in case of adultery by the woman; the words, repeated in Matt.
When the sentence against the woman taken in adultery was about to be carried into execution, he absolutely denied the possibility of human justice, and demonstrated that man could not be the judge since man himself was guilty.
It is plain that whether for or without the fault of adultery on the part of the woman, the husband who puts away his wife exposes her to the commission of adultery.
And he said unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Though adultery is not unknown, jealousy is rare, and never leads to violence.
The tribe of Benjamin was almost cut off upon the occasion of an adultery or rape.
It is more foolish to sin in the sight of God, because you can hide it from the world, than to steal or commit adultery in the open market-place, before the crowd, and be careful that dogs and crows discern it not.
And yet fornication is punished severely, and adultery with death.
When an adulterer asked Thales whether he should make a vow against his sin, he answered him, Adultery is as bad as perjury: if thou dare be an adulterer, thou darest forswear thyself.
I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Obviously, it is difficult in the majority of cases to establish by ocular demonstration that adultery has been committed.
She must proveadultery plus cruelty, or adultery plus desertion without reasonable cause.
A man can obtain a divorce from his wife if he can prove that she has been guilty of adultery since her marriage.
A woman cannot obtain a divorce from her husband for adultery alone.
Criminals, also, in cases of adultery and witchcraft, became slaves by the same laws.
The Cudra who is guilty of adultery with the wife of a Dvija must die, if she was watched; if not, he loses his sexual organs.
Adultery is in some cases threatened with very heavy penalties by the law.
But if Kshatriyas and Vaicyas commit adultery with a Brahman woman of good family, they are to be burnt, and the woman is to be torn to pieces by dogs in a public place.
She had been accused of adultery by two of the elders and condemned to death, but was acquitted on Daniel's examination of her accusers to their confusion and condemnation to death in her stead.
Among the Korkus a man and woman caught in adultery have each a lock of hair cut off.
If a man takes a widow to his house without marrying her he is fined three rupees, while for adultery with a married woman the penalty is twenty rupees.
The Mahalodhis are said to condone adulteryeither by a man or woman on penalty of a feast to the caste.
Divorce is permitted for adultery on the part of the wife.
Divorce is permitted on the husband's initiative for adulteryor serious disagreement.
The punishment for adultery in either sex consists in cutting off a piece of the left ear with a razor, and a man guilty of intercourse with a prostitute is punished as if he had committed adultery.
It is possible that the practice of Hindu husbands of cutting off the nose of a wife detected in adultery has some similar association, and is partly intended to prevent her from again wearing a nose-ring.
In Damoh it is said that a man readily condones his wife's adultery with another Kurmi, and if it becomes known and she is put out of caste, he will give the penalty feasts himself for her admission.
So he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
The adultery itself is often only a matter of laying your hand, even in self-defence from a virago, on a woman--or brushing against her in the path.
In old days adultery was punished by cutting off the offender's hand.
These accusations of adultery are, next to witchcraft, the great social danger to the West Coast native, and they are often made merely from motives of extortion or spite, and without an atom of truth in them.
But as a general rule all along the Coast the death penalty for murder or adultery is commuted to a fine, or you can send a substitute to be killed for you, if you are rich.
Kings Chapter 11 David falleth into the crime of adultery with Bethsabee: and not finding other means to conceal it, causeth her husband Urias to be slain.
Behold, I will cast her into a bed: and they that commit adultery with her shall be in very great tribulation, except they do penance from their deeds, 2:23.
Forgetfulness of God, defiling of souls, changing of nature, disorder in marriage, and the irregularity of adultery and uncleanness.
The punishment of him that slandereth his wife, as also of adultery and rape.
But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adulterywith her in his heart.
And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another committeth adultery against her.
Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls: having their heart exercised with covetousness: children of malediction.
If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.
Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord.
