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C Of Adultery .

except actual eye-witnesses, should not be admitted to justify
if prosecuted for defamation. 3. Neither the supposed
Adulterer nor the supposed Adulteress should be compellable
to give testimony ; nor any persons intimately connected with
them; such as Relations within a certain degree and Servants.
4. A previous information on oath of an actual eye-witness
should be made necessary in order to ground a prosecution.

Extenuation Excuse I.

Where his Wife was refuses unwilling, or by reason of absence
or bodily infirmity is unable, to receive his embraces.

Other Extenuations Excusesare, 2. Want of Intention. 3. Ignorance
of the Law. 4. Innocence of Intention . 5. Intoxication.
6. Compulsion. 7. Deference to Authority(a). 8. Provocation, to
wit on the part of the Wife.

In any of the above cases of Extenuation Excuse the Offender
shall only be privately admonished.

If an unmarried Woman commit adultery with
a married man her punishment may be as follows. 1.

Note.

(a) Most of the above excuses are in a high degree improbable : but all are possible. In a finished
body of Law some explanations would need to be given under each . But they do not appear of
sufficient importance to merit a place here.

Identifier: | JB/071/102/001"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	102	Info in main headings field	of adultery
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23505
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