BREACH OF PROMISE.
NOVEL AMERICAN BILL.
The growing scandal of breach of promise suits in which Susceptible juries award heavy damage to weeping and "beautiful American women has led to the introduction of a Bill in the New York Legislature providing that " No contract or agreement between two parties for marriage is valid unless it is in writing and duly sworn to before a notary public." The author of the Bill, Mr. Hackenburg, describes it as aimed at " designing adventuresses" who exploit the existing law solely for blackmail. The Bill limits the damages for breach of promise to 3d. and the recovery of any personal or real property transferred under the conditions of the engagement contract. In introducing it Mr. Hackenburg. observed :— ■ ~ " Times have changed since grandma was a girl. A trusting female endowed with the right to. sue for alleged damage' to her feelings has become an anachronism in an age when woman is self-respect-ing, self-supporting, and with a definite place in the industrial activities of the world." , - '" ¥
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)
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