"Co-respondent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... revolution and the crimes in Dublin in 1916. England discovered the plan of the revolution just in time to foil the landing in Ireland of Germany, whom Ireland had invited there. Were England seeking to break loose from Ireland, she could sue Ireland for a divorce and name the Kaiser as co-respondent. Any court would ...
— A Straight Deal - or The Ancient Grudge • Owen Wister
... strike you at all," he asked the trembling woman, his voice barren of all feeling and edged with biting incredulity. "Didn't it strike you at all, when you kissed the co-respondent, that you were betraying ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston
... a sportsman; when he is a poet, a co-respondent, or a neologist it is thought rather a pity; and he is spoken of in undertones. Neology is considered especially reprehensible. The junior member of the Board of Revenue, or even the Commissioner ...
— Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series • George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
... poor king was put to death by co-respondent Mortimer in a painful and sickening manner, after having been most inhumanly treated in Berkeley Castle, ...
— Comic History of England • Bill Nye
... Joan Sutherland, is a story with a more serious theme. It really raises the question whether a man who has wrongly been named as co-respondent is in honour bound to marry the defendant. The affair of Lady Madge with Lord Desmond was an entirely innocent one, despite what London said. Lady Madge's husband, wrought upon by shame and anger, ...
— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton
... require a guide to conduct me through them I confess weariness, but in That Woman from Java (HURST AND BLACKETT) I found the glossary less fatiguing hero. Things were going badly for Mrs. Hamilton in the divorce case, "Hamilton v. Hamilton, co-respondent King," when the judge broke down. That might have happened to any judge, but, although I can follow the judicial Bruce quite easily to his sick bed, I cannot believe that he would, on his recovery, have refrained ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 • Various
... wife may divorce him on the ground of desertion, or give him ground for divorcing her. On discovery of misconduct on the woman's part the husband will usually divorce her; the man then retains all property accumulated since the marriage, and the children are divided between the parents. The co-respondent and respondent are fined by the chief, and half the amount of the fine goes to the injured husband. Misconduct on the part of the man must be flagrant before it constitutes a sufficient ground for his divorce by his wife. In this case the same rules are followed. Among the Kayans the divorce ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall
... "I can divorce you! There will be no defense possible,—as you know. If witnesses are needed, they are to be had in the persons of our own domestics. The co-respondent in the case will not refute the charge against him,—and I, the plaintiff, must win my just cause. Do you realize it all, Clara? You, the well-known leader of a large social circle—you, the proud beauty and envied lady of rank and fashion,—you ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli |
