Burrows v. Purple
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ oe entry, brought in the superior court, to recover land in Gill. Plea, nul disseisin. The case was submitted to the judgment of the court upon the following facts agreed by the parties: On August 1, 1868, the demandant filed in this court a libel against her husband, George R. Burrows, for a divorce from bed and board on the ground of cruelty, and upon that libel caused the land in question to be attached.
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Writ oe entry, brought in the superior court, to recover land in Gill. Plea, nul disseisin. The case was submitted to the judgment of the court upon the following facts agreed by the parties: On August 1, 1868, the demandant filed in this court a libel against her husband, George R. Burrows, for a divorce from bed and board on the ground of cruelty, and upon that libel caused the land in question to be attached. The court afterwards passed an order for the payment of alimony pendente lite. At September term 1869 that case was heard by the chief justice, a divorce from bed and board decreed,…
1Opinion of the CourtGbay, J.
This court has long been vested, by successive statutes, with authority, upon granting to a wife a decree of divorce, either from bed and board or from the bond of matrimony, to allow her reasonable alimony out of her husband’s estate. Sts. 1785, c. 69, § 5; 1805, c. 57; 1810, c. 119. Rev. Sts. c. 76, § 31. Gen. Sts. c. 107, §§ 43, 44. And the practical construction of these statutes has always been that such alimony might, at the discretion of the court, be ordered to be paid in one gross sum, instead of being made payable at stated periods. Orrok v. Orrok, 1 Mass. 341; Rec. 1805, fol. 114.…
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