Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 471

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471. (viii) The weighty reasons for having a concubine of this kind are genuine and not genuine.

Besides those which are just grounds for taking a concubine, because they are just grounds for a separation, there are also weighty reasons depending on the husband's judgment and sense of justice; so these too must be mentioned. But since the judgments of justice can be perverted, these reasons are to be distinguished into genuine weighty reasons and ones which are not genuine, which will be described separately.


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