Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

The Old Yellow Book: Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book

Hodell, Charles W. (Charles Wesley), 1872-1925 [Editor]· 2 chapters· 83,745 words

evaded on the authority of certain jurists who assert that it is permissible for a husband to kill his wife, even by means of men thus brought together. For the said authorities speak, and should be understood, in a case in which a husband may kill with impunity an adulterer a...

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2. chapter 82, where they impose a penalty for assembling men for an evil

end, if the evil end may not have followed. But they decide nothing when the crime for which the men had been assembled had been put into execution, because in this case the pen...

1. chapter 82 of the same Banns. This circumstance and quality cannot be

evaded on the authority of certain jurists who assert that it is permissible for a husband to kill his wife, even by means of men thus brought together. For the said authorities...