Adultery

If the one is disjoined from the flesh, but remains in the heart—there, where even a thought, without the meeting of the flesh, both perfects adultery beforehand out of concupiscence, and marriage out of will—he is still a husband, possessing that very thing through which also he was made a husband, that is, the mind;

Adultery is when, the two being in any way disjoined, another flesh—nay, a foreign one—is mingled in, of which it cannot be said, "This is flesh of my flesh, and this bone of my bones.

And by how much you would not be reckoned an adulteress for being made another man's after your husband's death, if you still had to act in the law, by so much, from the diversity of the condition, does he prejudge you of adultery for marrying another after your husband's death;

we have, however, no canon to subject him to the charge of adultery, if the sin be committed against a woman free from marriage;

The man who marries a woman after she has been taken away from another will be charged with adultery as regards the first, but as regards the second will be free from blame.

The woman who lives with an adulterer is an adulteress the whole time.

for it is in crimes, which are proved with the greatest difficulty, such as adultery, and sodomy, that presumptions, half-proofs, etc.

To every crime, which from its nature must frequently remain unpunished, the punishment is an incentive.

If I were speaking to nations guided only by the laws of nature, I would tell them, that there is a considerable difference between adultery and all other crimes.

But adultery is a practice which no man can begin after fifty.

"I remit, to those who have discharged penance, the offences both of adultery and of fornication.

But if I should say "adultery" and "defilement," it will be one indictment of the contaminated flesh.

" Inquire whether the law against adultery is preserved, to which there has been added the law against coveting.

When a man and a woman meet in private at an improper time or in an improper place, their meeting, conversation, and dalliance are the three stages of adultery (`saṃgrahaṇa` (संग्रहण)).

If out of arrogance, or folly, or for the sake of boasting, a man says of his own accord, "This woman was enjoyed by me before," all is remembered as adultery (`saṃgrahaṇa` (संग्रहण)).

By sending a female messenger, by sending letters, and by other signs of misconduct, all is remembered as adultery (`saṃgrahaṇa` (संग्रहण)).

Adultery would become so rare and so contemptible (being wholly uncalled for) that the adulterer would be socially ostracised.

which refuses a woman divorce on the ground of her husband's adultery;