"[M]y own view is that she should have given [the ring] back," Associate Justice James R. Milkey wrote of the former bride-to-be in a dissenting opinion. "But why should my personal view on this issue matter? To me, the ultimate question this case poses is whether such issues should be resolved in courts of law, or instead left to the interplay between private conscience and social norms."
September 15, 2023 at 12:46 PM
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It’s been nearly 64 years since the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided, in De Cicco v. Barker, that an engagement ring is a “nature of a pledge, given on the implied condition that the marriage shall take place.”
“If the contract to marry is terminated without fault on the part of the donor, he may recover the ring,” the De Cicco court ruled, siding with the plaintiff, who was attempting to recover a six-carat diamond engagement ring from his former fiancée.
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