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<head>Of Adultery.</head> | <head>Of Adultery.</head> | ||
is more diminished in the female than in the male.<lb/> | is more diminished in the female than in the male. <lb/> | ||
The sex and number and age of the children is also to<lb/> | The sex and number and age of the children is also to <lb/> | ||
be taken into the account. | be taken into the account. The males should be <add>placed under</add> <del><gap/></del> the <lb/> | ||
guardianship of the Father, the females under that of the <lb/> | |||
mother. The <sic>burthen</sic> of supporting them should be considered<lb/> | |||
in the <sic>divission</sic> of the fortune.<lb/> | |||
Where the parties are in such circumstances as to<lb/> | |||
admit of it, the Husband ifnot put away might be<lb/> | |||
obliged to make some kind of pecuniary amends to the<lb/> | |||
Wife, by addingto her separate allowance, if she has any,<lb/> | |||
or engaging to leave her such or such a Sum by his Will.<lb/> | |||
Provissions like these were they often to be <add>enforced</add><del><gap/></del> <lb/> | |||
might do more towards disturbing the peace of families<lb/> | |||
than <add>toward maintaining</add><del><gap/></del> it. The chief use of them is to subject the <lb/> | |||
offender to a kind of disgrace <foreign><hi rend='underline'>ipso jure</hi></foreign>; <add>that is</add> <del><gap/></del> by giving <lb/> | |||
force and direction to the censure of the World. For this <lb/> | |||
purpose certain obstacles should be purposely thrown in <lb/> | |||
the way of <sic>prossecution</sic>. 1. None but the Wife should be permitted<lb/> to prossecute | |||
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C
Of Adultery.
is more diminished in the female than in the male.
The sex and number and age of the children is also to
be taken into the account. The males should be placed under the
guardianship of the Father, the females under that of the
mother. The burthen of supporting them should be considered
in the divission of the fortune.
Where the parties are in such circumstances as to
admit of it, the Husband ifnot put away might be
obliged to make some kind of pecuniary amends to the
Wife, by addingto her separate allowance, if she has any,
or engaging to leave her such or such a Sum by his Will.
Provissions like these were they often to be enforced
might do more towards disturbing the peace of families
than toward maintaining it. The chief use of them is to subject the
offender to a kind of disgrace ipso jure; that is by giving
force and direction to the censure of the World. For this
purpose certain obstacles should be purposely thrown in
the way of prossecution. 1. None but the Wife should be permitted
to prossecute
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of adultery |
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