“UNWRITTEN LAW” NOT RECOGNISED
“We do not recognise what the French call the ‘crime passionnel,’ or the unwritten law. in this country,” said Sir Ernest Wild, the Recorder of London, at the Oil Bailey. “Jealousy, even justifiable jealousy, is no excuse for crime. If people were allowed to take the law into their own hands it would be a return to the age of savagery.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 10
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