A FLAW IN THE MARRIAGE LAWS.
A PARALLEL CASK TO THAT OF MRS. HALL. OP TIMARU.
A young woman who applied to Mr. Lushington at the Thames Police Court on September 2, for advice, is suffering from a real hardship for which the law, as it stands at present, provides no redress. Five months ago the applicant's husband was sentenced to ten year*' penal servitude, and since his incarceration the had heard nothing of him. Meanwhile tha lady charms had smitten some susceptible swain who had made her an , offer of marriage, and her object in consulting the magistrate was to know if she could ' legally marry again. It need hardly be said that Mr. Lushmgton'a reply was a decided negative. An English newspaper, commenting on this case, says This young woman must be typical of many other wives whose husbands are in penal servitude, and it becomes a matter of considerable social importance whether some enactment should not be passed under which a wife may obtain a legal release from a criminal who is sentenced to more than a given period of imprisonment. We can easily understand the " deep disappointment" which the applicant felt when she found she was irrevocably tied to a convict for the rest of her life* This is j punishing two persons for one crime.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7782, 30 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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220A FLAW IN THE MARRIAGE LAWS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7782, 30 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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