WHEN WOMEN OBEYED.
INTERESTING LEGAL POINT. 1900-YEAR LAW QUOTED. (Received 7.30 p.m.) London, March B.—ln connection with the Peel case, counsel insisted on the strtict letter of the ancient law regarding a wife’s immunity. He pointed out that the presumption th it a wife was coerced by her husband when they acted together could be found in the laws of Ina. King of the West Saxons, 1000 years ago, and he made great use of the rulings of the famous Justice Hawkins.
Mr Justice Darling replied that ft was all very well in King Ina’s time, when husbands were allowed to beat sheir wives and the wives really obeyed. It might be also true in Justb o Hawkins’s time, but was not done today. England formerly allowed husbands to control their wives, but it was not so now. He agreed, however, that the English law presumed that a woman who acted criminally in her husband’s presence was coerced.— (United Service.)
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Wairarapa Age, 10 March 1922, Page 5
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