It’s been almost 64 years because the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Courtroom determined, in De Cicco v. Barker, that an engagement ring is a “nature of a pledge, given on the implied situation that the wedding shall happen.”
“If the contract to marry is terminated with out fault on the a part of the donor, he might get well the ring,” the De Cicco courtroom dominated, siding with the plaintiff, who was making an attempt to get well a six-carat diamond engagement ring from his former fiancée.