If A Man Stay Away From His Wife For Seven Years, The Law Presumes The Separation To Have Killed Him

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If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the
separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience,
it might well prolong his life.
-- Charles Darling, "Scintillae Juris, 1877

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