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5. 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 Excuses Extenuations are , 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.

Abatement Lighter punishment Substituted . In any of the above cases of Extenuation Excuse the Offender
shall only be privately admonished.

Punishment for Single Adultery in an Unmarried Woman. If an unmarried Woman commit adultery with
a married man her punishment may be as follows. 1.

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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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