Vie *pettator
March 20, 1830
A MAN who wants to get rid of his wife must go to Doctors' Commons to satisfy the civil law; he must go to Westminster to satisfy the common law; time was when he must go to Chalk Farm to satisfy the law of fashion; and all existing statutes being complied with, he must carry his case and his witnesses to the bar of the House of Lords, and ask for a new statute for his special relief. To one that has not a few thousand pounds to sport, a divorce is of impossible attainment; and accordingly we hear it very frequently urged as a reason why a large compensation should be assigned to a husband for being deprived of his partner, that without a large compensation he will not be able to keep her away when she is away. It is passing strange, under such circumstances, that divorces should be on the increase; and yet this seems to be the case.
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