Case ID: mass_2/html/0143-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

* Rebecca Hill, Libellant, versus David Hill.
    In a libel for a divorce a mensd et thora, the Court do not require evidence of the marriage unless denied by the respondent.
    Threats of violence, without actual assault, are no ground for a divorce a mensd et thora.
    
    This was a libel for a divorce a mensd et thora, for extreme cruelty in the husband.
    
      Ellis, for the libellant,
    offered a certificate of the marriage of the parties.
   Curia.

In a libel for a divorce from bed and board only, you nave no occasion to prove a marriage, unless it be denied.

The evidence in support of the charge of cruelty was only of abusive and threatening language.

Curia. Threats of violence, without an actual assault, are not a legal cause for divorce, The wife’s remedy in such case is by exhibiting articles of the peace against her husband.

The divorce was refused. 
      
      
        Warren vs. Warren, 3 Mass. Rep. 321. — French vs. French, 4 Mass. Rep. 587. — Sed vide, contra, Hulme vs. Hulme, 2 Adams’s Eccl. R. 27. — Oliver vs. Oliver, 1 Hagg. Cons. R. 364. — Kirkman vs. Kirkman, 1 Hagg. Con. R. 409. — Holden vs. Holden, 1 Hagg. Con. R. 458. — Evans vs. Evans, 1 Hagg. Con. R. 35. — Waring vs. Waring, 2 Phil. 132. — Popkin vs. Popkin, 1 Hagg. Eccl. R. 768. — De’Aguillar vs. De’Aguillar, 1 Hagg. Eccl. R. 773. — Westmeath vs. Westmeath, 2 Hagg. Eccl. R. 72, 112, 113. — Barrere vs. Barrere, 4 Johns. Ch. 187. — 2 Kent. Com. 126, 127, 2d ed ; and vide Perkins vs. Perkins, 6 Mass. Rep. 69.