 | 1903 - 1018 pages
...correction ; "which, although, doubted, as Mr. Blackstone says, in the polite reign of Charles II. yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond...of her liberty, in case of any gross misbehaviour :" for which he cites Strange, 478,(b) and 875,(c)— 1 Bl. Com. p. 445. Witnesses may be examined... | |
 | Henry Harrison Sprague - 1903 - 124 pages
...may now have security of the peace against her husband, or, in return, a husband against his wife. Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond...law, still claim and exert their ancient privilege." 1 In a somewhat recent case in this Commonwealth, it was declared that beating or striking a wife violently... | |
 | Philip Rappaport - 1906 - 242 pages
...may now have security of the peace against her husband; or, in return, a husband against his wife. Yet, the lower rank of people, who were always fond...restrain a wife of her liberty, in case of any gross misbehavior." Far up into the period of civilization the husband had the privilege of committing adultery... | |
 | Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse - 1906 - 404 pages
...may now have security of the peace against her husband ; or, in return, a husband against his wife. Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond...of the old common law, still claim and exert their antient privilege, and the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty... | |
 | Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse - 1906 - 418 pages
...may now have security of the peace against her husband ; or, in return, a husband against his wife. Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond...of the old common law, still claim and exert their antient privilege, and the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1868 - 590 pages
...conservative prejudice would not allow it remain quite a dead letter ; for, as Blackstone naively observes, tl lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, si claim and exert their ancient privileges. The Chinese, although pj bably the least religious, that... | |
 | Association of American Law Schools - 1909 - 884 pages
...may now have security of the peace against her husband, or, in return, a husband against his wife. Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond...of her liberty in case of any gross misbehaviour.' l '1This touching attachment to their old common law still survives among ' the lower rank of people... | |
 | Eugene Arthur Hecker - 1910 - 326 pages
...may now have security of the peace against her husband, or, in return, a husband against his wife. Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, still claim and 1 " Except in so far as he may lawfully and reasonably do so in order to correct and chastise his wife."... | |
 | 1911 - 1074 pages
...correction begun to be doubted ; and a wife may now have security of the peace against her husband. Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond...law, still claim and exert their ancient privilege. Surely the boldness is far more obvious than the wisdom of an apology which suggests that a costermonger... | |
 | Cecil Maurice Chapman - 1911 - 172 pages
...says, ' the lower rank of people who were always fond of the Common Law still claim and exert their privilege, and the Courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty in cases of gross misbehaviour.' Although the law no longer recognises the right of correction it must... | |
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Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, still claim and exert their ancient privilege: and the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty, in case of any gross misbehaviour. 
