Lamar v. Lamar

Under the English practice the writ of ne exeat regno was a prerogative writ which issued to prevent a person frona leaving the realm. In America it has been treated, not as a prerogative writ, but as a writ of right in the cases in which it is properly grantable. In regard to alimony the practice of granting the writ has sometimes been said to have arisen from compassion, and because the ecclesiastical courts could not take bail. . But the truer ground on which equitable interference arose would seem to be, that, although alimony was not strictly an equitable debt, yet the ecclesiastical'…