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Extreme Cruelty

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the law of divorce. The infliction of grievous bodily harm or grievous mental suffering. Civ. Code Cal. 1903, § 94. Either personal violence or the reasonable apprehension thereof, or a systematic course of lil treatment affecting health and endangering life. Morris v. Morris, 14 Cal. 79, 73 Am. Dee, 615; Harratt v. Harratt, 7 N. H. 198, 26 Arn. Dec. 730; Carpenter v. Carpenter, 30 Kan. 712, 2 Pac. 122, 46 Am. Rep. 108. Any conduct constituting aggravated or inhuman lll-treat-ment, having regard to the physical and temperamental constitution of the parties and all the surrounding circumstances. Donald v. Donald, 21 Fla. 573; Blain v. Biain, 45 Vt. 544; Poor v. Poor, 8 N. H. 315, 29 Am. Dec. 664.