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1818 May 29
Offences against Condition
1. Wrongful non-collation Interception of Husbandship is where
with relation to a certain female person considered in the character of
a Wife a certain male person would in a certain event
have been in possession legal possession of the condition of
a Husband, a certain third person the delinquent
by some unlawful act means or acts, positive or negative has
prevented or contributed to prevent such eventual Husband
from becoming such so in effect.
[Unlawful means act or acts] Such means will viz. by some act which viz. force or fraud falshood
I. Force Bodily force. To the celebration of the marriage, and thence to the completion of the marriage contract it is necessary suppose that this at the same time they should be in the presence of each other. Example – By physical force imprisonment
confinement or banishment local exclusion applied either to the male person of the
one or to the other person in question or to the female, there the parties this meeting is prevented.
prevented from in presence of each other at the See Offences against person, either Simple personal injuries
II. Mental force: viz: threats by menacement: eventual denuntiation of
evil eventual evil, as about to befall the party threatened
in consequence of the endeavours to be employed by the ulterior author
of the such threats. See Offences against person title Menacement. Offences against
persons expectation. and Offences against property. Offences
against power and reputation.
It is in unlawful menacement above the Caution happen the of the A person from by whom to the person in question but
for the menace a certain service would be rendered, is by
law free to render or not render such service. The denuntiation
of the an intention eventually to withhold such
service, or by means not unlawful not or to cause it to be witholden is not, to this effect an
unlawful menace: for example a service: for
example that of conferring on the party a gift an estate
in land, a sum of money, a beneficial office in life-time or after death.
Identifier: | JB/067/145/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
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