Divorce
idea · 3 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
divorce · loosing · putting asunder · putting away a wife
in the texts
De Monogamia
The dissolution of marriage, permitted by Moses but restricted by Christ
for if it was so done from the beginning, we find ourselves directed by Christ to the beginning—as, in the question of divorce, when he says that it was permitted by Moses on account of their hardness, but from the beginning it was not so, he without doubt recalls to the beginning the indivisibility of marriage.
But another reason also conspires—nay, not another, but that which imposed the form of the beginning and moved the will of God to the prohibition of divorce—namely, that "whoever shall put away his wife, except for the cause of adultery, makes her to be made an adulteress, and he who takes her that is put away by her husband, commits adultery.
For let us consider that divorce either arises from discord or causes discord, but death comes by the law of God, not by man's offence, and is the debt of all, even of those not married.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The legal and social question of dissolving marriage, used as an illustration of differing democratic and socialistic viewpoints.
The noticeable fact for our present purpose is that the difference of opinion as to the terms, if any, on which divorce ought to be allowed, arises from the difference between the individualistic, or democratic, and the socialistic view of life.
Law in a Free State
The dissolution of a marriage union, discussed both as a present legal category and as a formalised registered act under the author's proposed reform.
But if not, he is hardly justified in saying, as he does, “We can enforce any payment agreed upon in case of divorce, but we cannot rightly do anything to restrain divorce or to perpetuate marriage between two persons.
Auberon Herbert, “we cannot rightly do anything, not even lift a straw, to restrain divorce or to perpetuate marriage between two persons.
And the obligation would continue for a period of one year after registration of divorce, or such shorter period as fulfilled the terms of the contract.