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Offences against Condition - Adultery

5. If the Husband, Father or Brother of of the woman From p.2
catch him in the fact, or in a situation which affords a probable presumptive proof of the offence, any
such it shall be a justification any such relation is justifiable tified
in beating him or doing him any other
act to his prejudice which wanted otherwise a consent
to no more than a simple personal injury.

Excuses for Adultery on the part of the woman
may be as follows Excuses I
1. If the husbands who have for the space of half
a year she has had no tidings of her husband, he
having deserted her without notice.

Excuse II 2. If for the space of three years she has had
no tidings of her husband, he having quitted her
with notice.[a]

3. If within a year he hath lived in open adultery with a woman
in the same house with him

Excuse IV 4. If having been detected in adultery +or on using sollicitations or practicing amorous familiarities with a servant
or other woman whom he has it in his power to remove and being admonished on the part of his
wife he put & not away the adulteress such other woman within
a week after receiving the admonition: cases of necessity excepted.

Excuse V 5. If by solemn agreement or judicial sentence she be already separated from her husband
in bed and board.

To p.6. par.4.

Instruction to the Legislator [a} would need a provision with respect to Sea-faring people going out upon a long voyages, for instance
to the East Indies

Identifier: | JB/071/090/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	090	Info in main headings field	offences against domestic condition - adultery
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1* / f2* / f3* / f4*
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23493
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