GERMAN LAW OF KISSING.
When the German criminal code was com- j piled the law-maiers by some oversight omitted to lay down the boundary line between permissible and illicit kisses. This deficiency has now beeu made good by the j Imperial Court at Leipzig. Tbe ruling of that angnst tribnnal is as follows: — "A kiss is an operation on the body of another which always requires the permission of the person kissed. Kisses may only be given without permission vheu the tacit consent ot the other is certain —that is to say, in the cases of close relatives, parents, children and lovers. If, on the other band. the other not merely affects coyness but offers serious resistance, It Is to be assumed that the kiss Is regarded as an illegal interference with personal right nnd an impairment of honour. Whoever under such circumstances imposes a kiss on another renders himself, therefore, guilty of an insult by the act. For fulfilment of these conditions it suffices that the kiss is given against tbe will of the other. It is not necessary that he himself feels the kiss to be insulting."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 17
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189GERMAN LAW OF KISSING. Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 17
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