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 A Century of English Judicature. morality. In this jurisdiction, involving the most sacred rights of individuals and the best interest of society, his benevolent wis dom is indelibly recorded. Such cases as Dalvrymple r. Dalyrymple, on the nature, origin and sanctity of marriage; Evans v.

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of warmth and sensibility in each of their tempers; the husband is occasionally inat tentive; the wife has a vivacity that some times offends and sometimes is offended; something like unkindness is produced, and is then easily inflamed; the lady broods over

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SIR WILLIAM SCOTT, AFTERWARDS LORD STOWELL.

Evans, the first great case on cruelty; Loveden г: Loveden; Sullivan v. Sullivan, and many others to be found in the contempo rary reports of Haggard and Phillimore, are rare specimens of legal philosophy and prac tical ethics. In the case of Evans v. Evans, for instance, he gives this picturesque analysis of matrimonial infelicity: "Two persons marry together, both of good moral characters, but with something

petty resentments, which are anxiously fed by the busy whispers of humble confidants; her complaints, aggravated by their reports, are carried to her relations, and meet per haps with a facility of reception from their honest, but well intentioned minds. A state of mutual irritation increases: something like incivility is continually practicing, and where it is not practiced it is continually suspected; every word, every act, every look has a