 What merely wounds the mental feelings is in few cases to be admitted, where they are not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation,...  Commentaries on American Law - Page 106by James Kent - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Church of England. Diocese of London. Consistory Court - Ecclesiastical law - 1822 - 580 pages
...cases to be admitted, where they are not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 694 pages
...ca«es to be admitted, where it is not accompanied with bodilj injury, either actual or menaced. Meie austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention or accommodation, even occasional sallies of passiuii, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not... | |
 | Richard Burn - Ecclesiastical law - 1842 - 812 pages
...cases to be admitted, where they are not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...admitted to be cruelty, unless the act be accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, will not amount to legal cruelty ; a fortiori... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...cases to be admitted, where they are not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...apprehension of bodily hurt. The courts keep the rule very strict. The causes must be grave and weighty, and show such a state of personal danger as that the duties...life cannot be discharged. Mere austerity of temper, petulence of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention, even occasional sallies of passion,... | |
 | Law - 1849 - 604 pages
...cases to be admitted, where they are not accompanied by bodily injury threatened or menaced." That " mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Divorce - 1852 - 782 pages
...is in few cases to be admitted, where not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 976 pages
...few cases to he admitted, when they are not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not... | |
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