WORDS AND PHRASES – “Legal Cruelty” – Definition of “legal cruelty”

“The generally accepted definition of cruelty is set out in Rayden on Divorce 5th ed., p. 80): ‘Legal cruelty may be defined as conduct of such a character as to have caused danger to life, limb or health (bodily or mental), or as to give rise to a reasonable apprehension of such danger.”

Per IAN LEWIS, JSC in OBAYEMI V. OBAYEMI (1967) LCER-435(SC) (P. 17, Paras C – D)
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