“Love Pirates"
VANCOUVER, Aug. G. A ‘‘Love Pirate Bill,” designed to reduce the number of homes broken up through alienation of the affections of one or other of tho conjugal partners, lias been introduced into the Legislature of tho Stato of Georgia. It proposes a year’s imprisonment for the misdemeanour of ‘‘stealing” someone else’s wife or husband.
If it passes into law only one kind of association will be permitted between a married man and another man’s wife, or between a married woman and another woman’s husband. This will be: “Legitimate association in business and social affairs.”
Anything more will be punishable. Even the writing of affectionate letters from one person's spouse to another person’s spouse will be punishable.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6628, 15 August 1931, Page 13
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119“Love Pirates" Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6628, 15 August 1931, Page 13
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