BREACH OF PROMISE.
BACHELOR JUDGE'S COMMENTS. (BT CABLE—PRISS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT). ("AMUB.") (Received October 80th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 29. A breach of promise action, in which a woman barrister and three jury women were engaged, prompted Mr Justice McArdie, who is a bachelor, to declare that such cases were an assertion of woman's inferiority. Ho had rarely heard of a breach of promise cfise of a man against a woman. Women came forward as the weaker sex to recover damages under a law drawn up when she was an economic slave, though she now asserted herself an economic equal to man. He added: "You have to consider the matrimonial market. If to-morrow this woman meets another man of character and sobriety earning £7 weekly) she gains instead of loses. She says that she has lost hope, but hope revives quickly in the breast of an unmarried woman." The jurywomen retaliated by giving the girl £IOO in dnmages.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19145, 31 October 1927, Page 11
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156BREACH OF PROMISE. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19145, 31 October 1927, Page 11
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