HUSBAND AND WIFE.
NO RIGHT TO CHASTISE. A Soufhwark porter, who, when charged with assaulting his wife, claimed that, he had a right to chastise her, was told by Mi-. 11. r;. Roolh, the Lambeth magistral e. that his view of Ihe law was quite wrong. Tho defendant complained that his wife stayed out late at nights, and addressing her iti Court said he was going to chastise her as long as she was his wife. Mr. Rooth : You are not entitled to do that. A wife has ceased to be a chattel to be dealt with as a man thinks fit. She now stands as an independent person with her own rights. Do not think that because you have married a woman that entitles you to knock her about. It does not. It you continue to treat, your wife in this way you will find yourself in durance vile.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19831, 29 December 1927, Page 12
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