EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN
WIFE-BEATING NOT PERMISSIBLE. LENGTHY DISPUTE IN FRANCE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, June 25. (Received June 26, at 8.40 p.m.) After one of the longest legal disputes on record the Supreme Court, decided that a Frenchman may not beat his wife. The case was commenced on May 2, 1872, when a Parisian woman asked the Court in Chamhery to send her husband to gaol for thrashing her. Hitherto a Frenchman beating his wife was always acquitted, hut the Supreme Court has now decided that wife-beating is an offence under the penal code. It is not known whether the litigants arc still quarrelling, but they have been giving and receiving chastu„rnent throughout the 51 years since the case was launched.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18899, 27 June 1923, Page 7
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124EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN Otago Daily Times, Issue 18899, 27 June 1923, Page 7
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