New Commentaries on Marriage, Divorce, and Separation as to the Law, Evidence, Pleading, Practice, Forms and the Evidence of Marriage in All Issues on a New System of Legal Exposition

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T. H. Flood, 1891

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Page 98 - And the said records and judicial proceedings authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 517 - ... is, that the circumstances must be such as would lead the guarded discretion of a reasonable and just man to the conclusion; for it is not to lead a rash and intemperate judgment, moving upon appearances that are equally capable of two interpretations. Neither is it to be a matter of artificial reasoning, judging upon such things differently from what would strike the careful and cautious consideration of a discreet man.
Page 419 - And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and each of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the President of the Probate. Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice...
Page 517 - The only general rule that can be laid down upon the subject is that the circumstances must be such as would lead the guarded discretion of a reasonable and just man to the conclusion...
Page 169 - Court shall pronounce a decree declaring such marriage to be dissolved; provided always that the Court shall not be bound to pronounce such decree if it shall find that the petitioner has during the marriage been guilty of adultery...
Page 249 - And that your petitioner may have such further and other relief in the premises as to your Lordship may seem meet.
Page 287 - Forasmuch as matrimonial causes have been always reckoned and reputed among the weightiest, and therefore require the greater caution, when they come to be handled and debated in judgment, especially in causes wherein matrimony, having been in the church duly solemnized, is required, upon any suggestion or pretext whatsoever, to be dissolved or annulled: we do...
Page 18 - Circuit Courts of this State on petition filed by any person who, at the time of the filing of such petition, shall have been a bona fide resident of the State one year previous to the filing of the same...
Page 134 - I have come to the conclusion that condonation means a 'blotting out of the offence imputed, so as to restore the offending party to the same position he or she occupied before the offence was committed'.
Page 340 - But without stopping to inquire whether it was obtained by him by fraud, and therefore is vicious on that account or not, it certainly cannot affect the rights of the complainant, except her right in the husband as husband. If it is valid, it unmarries him and sets him free from his marital vows to her. He is no longer the complainant's husband. But it does not settle her right to alimony; it does not settle her right to dower in his lands, and her statutory right to distribution of his property...

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