Inhuman Treatment
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In the law of divorce. Such barbarous cruelty or severity as endangers the Ilfe or health of the party to whom it is addressed, or creates a well-fuimded apprehension of such danger.
Whaley v. Whaley, 68 Iowa, 647, 27 N. W. 809; Wells v. Wells, 116 Iowa, 59, 89 N. W. 98; Co.le v. Cole, 23 Iowa, 433; Evans v. Evans, 82 Iowa, 462, 48 N. W. 809.
The phrase commonly employed in statutes is "cruel and inhuman treatment," from which it may be inferred that "inhumanity" is an extreme or aggravated "cruelty."