HARDSHIP ON WIVES.
[United Service.] LONDON, May 17. I A wife canon tbc libelled by her husband, was < , ’ z ' n colder (Sir E. J. Wild) at--the Central Criminal Court, in quashing an indie •- ment against a husband for publishing a. defamatory libtd against his wife. The defence quoted, a leading case wherein it was held that a wife cou’cl not proceed ago:mt her husband for libel, as a lilml might arise from angry passons, desire for revenge which might .ead to a breach of the The >rd‘i anniented: “I suppose the Judge thought passions oug. t > to be settled in domestic form. If man hits his wife she has a remedy. If he inflicts a more severe injury^by writing libellous postcards, she has none.
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Grey River Argus, 20 May 1922, Page 5
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