Oatley v. Oatley’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““There is no difficulty in determining when a right of action based on adultery occurs. That act is specifically referable to a certain time and place. Unlike separation or desertion the physical act of adultery immediately gives rise to the cause or right of action; the cause is perfected in the very act. But separation and desertion are continuing acts; the cause — the right of action — incident to them is not perfected until the required period of time has elapsed. Until that has run no rights can be predicated on the mere physical act of one party leaving the other. Indeed, some event may stay the running of the time so that no right of action ever matures. The time requirement, then, is jurisdictional; no right of action can arise unless it, along with all the other elements of the action, is fulfilled. To phrase it otherwise, for our purposes, no cause can occur until all the requirements are met.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. González Miranda v. Santiago