physical violence

physical violence
Force violently applied. As a ground for divorce, "physical violence" may consist in many acts, each slight in its character, and none producing marks of violence upon the person, and yet, considered as a whole, they may be ground for divorce; certainly so when from them the court is able to say the life of the wife is endangered. Thompson v Thompson, 186 Iowa 1066, 173 NW 55, 5 ALR 710, 711. See physical force; violence.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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