Does a divorce take effect with the statement, "If you leave the house, you will be divorced," with the intention of limiting the duration to two days, and then the wife leaves?
If by the phrase "You will be divorced if you go" you intended to make the divorce contingent on her going, then the divorce takes effect upon her going, and you may take her back as long as she is within her waiting period ('), without a new contract or witnesses. However, if you intended that you would divorce her if she went, but you did not actually issue the divorce, then it does not take effect because it is a promise and not a contingency.
Your specification that she should not leave for two days is correct. If she leaves after these two days, she is not disobedient to your command, because intention specifies the general and restricts the absolute, provided the wording allows for it.
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