Submitted by Richard Dey, Dec 27, 2007 23:25

An engagement ring is not a promise to pay, but it is a proposal for a contract of marriage..

If she returns the ring, she refuses the offer of the contract. If she does not automatically return the ring, the engagement from her point of view isn't broken.

If he asks for the ring to be returned and she refuses to return it, he has here learnt a $38,800 lesson which, on the sunny side of things, is less expensive than a 50:50 divorce in which he loses everything but his L. L. Bean boots.

On the good side, he doesn't have to return the $300,000 diamond ring she gave him for his membrum virile even if it looks better in its presentation box.

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