Court of Appeals of South Carolina May 15, 1848 (Hull v. Hull)

JohNstoN, Ch.

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This Court concurs in so much of the decree as is brought before us by the first ground of appeal.

Adultery is familiarly known, in law, as the illicit intercourse of two persons, one of whom, at least, is married ; and we must understand the word to have been employed in this sense in the Statute of 1795, unless there is something in the context