legal cruelty

Cruelty that will justify granting a divorce to the injured party; specif., conduct by one spouse that endangers the life, person, or health of the other spouse, or creates a reasonable apprehension of bodily or mental harm. [Cases: Divorce 27. C.J.S. Divorce § 22.]

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