Morris v. Morris

Citations

• 14 Cal. 76
• 1859 Cal. LEXIS 242

Syllabus

<p>Exteeme cruelty, in our Divorce Act, means the same thing as the scesüia or cruelty of the English Ecclesiastical Courts.</p> <p>It may he defined, generally, to be any conduct, in one of the married parties, which furnishes reasonable apprehension that the continuance of the cohabitation would be attended with bodily harm to the other.</p> <p>Courts grant divorces, in such cases, not to punish an offense already committed, but to relieve the complaining party of apprehended danger. And the divorce may follow, even in the absence of any actual violence.</p> <p>But if there has been actual violence, it must'be attended with danger to life, limb or health, or be such as to cause reasonable apprehension of future danger.</p>