BREACH OF PROMISE
PROPOSED CHANGE IN LAW
TO PROTECT IMPULSIVE
MALES
(Received November 16, 2.45 p.m.)
LONDON, November 15. With the object of protecting impulsive males against "gold-diggers" who have not suffered damage, Mr.- W. S. Liddall, M.P., is introducing a Bill to reform the breach of promise legislation. ... He contends that when a girl has spent money on her trousseau or relinquished her employment in the expectation of marriage, or has been engaged for six or seven years, she sustains damage if the marriage does not eventuate; but when a man, suddenly infatuated, becomes engaged in a few weeks and finds soon. afterwards that it is a mistake and that it is better to part he should be protected from victimisation. This would prevent subsequent divorce and possible trouble to parents on both sides. No steps have been taken to amend the breach of promise legislation since 1879. ___
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 10
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149BREACH OF PROMISE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 10
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