He says that divorces were allowed by them not only for adultery, but cruelty, desertion, and incompatibility of temper.
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America.
It has furnished this land with about one thousand divorces annually.
In one county in the State of Indiana it furnished eleven divorces in one day before dinner.
Thakin, if we were to grant divorces every time a woman came and demanded it, we should be doing nothing else all day long.
I have even tried to find out in small villages what the number of divorces were in a year, and tried to estimate from this the percentage.
Divorce is permitted, and, if a man divorces his wife, he usually gives her some paddy, a new cloth, and a rupee.
If a man divorces his wife, it is customary for him to give her a rupee and a new cloth in compensation.
Mrs. Macy said she see her point of view, but to her order of thinkin' the world don't begin to be where old maids need consider divorces yet awhile.
Such limited divorces might be made absolute after five years' separation, on petition of the party to whom the divorce was granted, and after ten years on that of the guilty party.
These statistics are indeed startling, and may be easily used as a foundation for an argument that our laws governing the matter are far too lenient, since the number of divorces is so apparently excessive.
When a man divorces his wife he has no liability for her maintenance, and often takes back any ornaments he may have given her.
Formerly if a wife misbehaved the Chitari sometimes sold her to the highest bidder, but this custom has fallen into abeyance, and now if a man divorces his wife her father usually repays to him the expenses of his marriage.
A man usually divorces his wife by vowing in the presence of two witnesses that he will in future consider intercourse with her as incestuous in the same degree as with his mother.
If a husband divorces his wife merely on account of bad temper, he must maintain her so long as she remains unmarried and continues to lead a moral life.
So, too, the impression that divorces spring from hasty action is certainly wrong, for in 46.
The idea that people generally seek divorces that they may marry some one else seems also unfounded, since in the cases for which we have records, less than forty per cent.
This young thing could not interfere with him, and divorces in Scotland were not impossible things--they would both gain what they wanted for the time, and it was a fair bargain.
As a priest, I must say that I find all divorces wrong--and that for me she should remain the wife of the other man.
However this may be, there is no doubt of the fact that divorces may be easily obtained by those who are willing to pay for them.
The genealogy showed a confused mass of divorces and adoptions, and neither the men nor the women of the royal house were safe.
Through two murders and two divorces she waded her way to a miserable throne.
Once, at a dinner given by the prince, an old lady of very high rank and leading position said suddenly to me, and in a way which aroused the attention of the whole company: "Is it true that divorces are very common in America?
I answered: "Yes, divorces are so common with us that the government has set aside one of our forty-odd States for this special purpose.
The most loving love matches I've known have burned out--ended in divorces and open scandal, or scandal concealed like ostriches for everybody to see and laugh at.
In England, where the law has insisted on adultery as a necessary cause, divorces have been few.
Divorce laws are very variable in the different States, but most divorces are obtained from the States where the applicants reside.
Two-thirds of the divorces are granted on the demands of the wife.
Divorces in the United States are least common among people of the middle class; they are higher among native whites than among immigrants, and they are highest in cities and among childless couples.
Mebby there wouldn't be so many Dakota and Chicago divorces in 1905 if it wuzn't for your cuttin' up and actin' in B.
My people all drank genteelly, and though of course it was drink that led to the agony and divorces of three of my sisters, and my father's first downfall, yet I have always considered that moderate drinking was genteel.
At present, in the monthly statement, the number of divorces in France, is often nearly equal to that of the marriages.
But as the wind is tempered to the shorn lamb, so were divorcesmade acceptable to Roman ladies.
The next refers to the marriages and divorces of certain ladies, and ends with an anecdote told as to a gentleman with just such ill-natured wit as is common in London.
Divorces were so common that no family odium was necessarily created.
After a divorce--Seth's idea of divorces were vague and Puritanical--there would be no hope.
How divorces were secured, or how long it took to get one, Seth did not know.
Article LIX If a free man divorces his wife three times, or a slave divorces his wife twice, it shall not be lawful for him, the man, to marry again before the divorced woman is married to another person.
If a man divorces his wife after the conclusion of the marriage act or ceremonies, and before any sexual intercourse has taken place, the woman shall have half of the dower only.
If a free mandivorces his wife three times or a slave divorces his wife twice, it shall not be lawful for either of them to marry the same woman again before she has been married to another person.
These adulteries and divorces increased very much; yea, and marrying again without any divorce at all, it became a great scandal to the Realm and to the religion professed in it.
What were divorces made for, if not to keep bad husbands from bothering?
You may not hold with divorcesin general, but you should keep quiet in this case.
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