Massachusetts’s highest court reversed a longstanding ruling by saying an engagement ring must be returned to the buyer if the wedding falls through.

The ruling went against a decades long tradition seeing engagement rings as a 'conditional gift' after the wealthy fiance found the school teacher was messaging another man who was calling her 'cupcak

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered Caroline Settino to return a $70,000 engagement ring to Bruce Johnson after he canceled their wedding, resolving a 65-year-old legal issue of blame in broken engagements.

Massachusetts' top court on Friday ruled that a would-be bride must return a $70,000 engagement ring from Tiffany & Co to her former fiancé in a decision that ended 65 years of courts in the New England state trying to sort through who is to blame when a relationship falls apart.

Who gets to keep an engagement ring if a wedding is called off? That’s what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a $70,000 ring at the center of the dispute.

When a Massachusetts man sued his ex-fiancée for a $70,000 engagement ring, the state's Supreme Court ruled that the ring should be returned to the buyer if the marriage is called off.

The ruling marks a departure from a decades-old state rule requiring courts to assess who was responsible for a breakup.

The ruling puts a definitive end to a six-decade-old state rule that required judges to try to identify who was to blame for the end of the relationship.