CONJUGAL RIGHTS.
NOVEL REASON FOR REFUSING THEM. (BY CABLE—PRES3 ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 15th, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 14. Before the Divorce Division of tht High Court, Mrs Dorothy Harnett, a novelist, proceeded against her husband, Edward Harnett, a barrister, for .restitution of conjugal rights. The husband's defence was that his wife lampooned him in print by detailing his life in a story called "Lex Talioni's Wife," Petitioner, replying, denied that the barrister in "Lex Talioni's Wife" represented her husband, and referred him to the notice appearing every month in the magazine, "Tfeat all characters are entirely imaginary. If the name of a living person happens to be mentioned, no personal reflection is intended." The wife's counsel urged that it was not a good grouad for refusing to live with his wife that she wrote a book libelling, her husband. Mr Justice Hill: I am not so sure about that, The hearing was adjourned.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17922, 16 November 1923, Page 9
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159CONJUGAL RIGHTS. Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17922, 16 November 1923, Page 9
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