The opinion of the court was delivered by JAYNE, J.A.D.
The earliest English decisions relative to the legal effect of the willful refusal of matrimonial intercourse emanated from actions for the restitution of conjugal rights in the ecclesiastical courts. Forster v. Forster, 1 Hag. Cons. Cas. 144 (1790), was perhaps the first.
In Gill v. Gill (1823, unreported, but referred to in the report of Orme v. Orme, 2 Addams 382...
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