BLOOD TEST
NO PROOF OF PATERNITY. BUDAPEST, November 29. If a blood test could legally be accepted as a proof of paternity was a problem that recently confronted a Hungarian Law Court. The Medico-Legal Higher Council expressed the opinion that the analysis of a globule of blood undoubtedly had a real value, but such a process could not be considered as irrefutable proof of paternity. Moreover, under the Hungarian Penal Code no one could be forced to submit to a blood test, which in spite of all precautions, was nevertheless not entirely without danger. Finally, no one, either in a civil or criminal case, could be forced to give proof against 1 hemselves. In view of all these considerations the Court decided against the acceptance of a blood test as legal proof.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1931, Page 8
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