Adultery
idea · 7 works · 8 mentions · 15 anchored passages
adultery · adulteress · saṃgrahaṇa (संग्रहण) · the adulterer
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De Monogamia
The sin of joining oneself to another flesh contrary to a God-joined union
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.
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;
What heresy, if we judge second marriages, as unlawful, next door to adultery?
Letters
The sin of adultery, defined and penalized across several canons.
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.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The crime of marital infidelity, analyzed at length as arising from pernicious laws and natural necessity rather than mere vice, and as resistant to effective punishment.
Adultery is a crime which, politically considered, owes its existence to two causes, viz.
Conjugal fidelity is always greater in proportion as marriages are more numerous, and less difficult.
To every crime, which from its nature must frequently remain unpunished, the punishment is an incentive.
In Defence of Lycophron
The offense of adultery under discussion as the underlying character of the charge, argued to be implausible given the defendant's age and record.
But adultery is a practice which no man can begin after fifty.
De Pudicitia
Sexual sin of adultery, the treatise's central disputed offense.
"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.
Nāradasmṛti
The legal category of illicit sexual/romantic conduct between a man and a married or unavailable woman, defined through an extensive list of behavioral markers.
"—all is remembered as adultery (`saṃgrahaṇa` (संग्रहण)).
For men, in a transgression with a woman of a higher class, the highest amercement is stated;
By sending food or drink, or clothes, garlands, and likewise perfumes, all is remembered as adultery (`saṃgrahaṇa` (संग्रहण)).
Law in a Free State
Sexual infidelity within marriage, discussed both as a declining phenomenon under a proposed free system and as unequally treated by the existing marriage law.
which refuses a woman divorce on the ground of her husband's adultery;
Adultery would become so rare and so contemptible (being wholly uncalled for) that the adulterer would be socially ostracised.