A Haw m the Marriage Laws
A young woman who applied to Mr Mr Lushington at the Thames Police Court on September 2, for advice,. is suffering from a real hardship for which' the law, as it stands at present, provides no repress. Five months ago the applicant's husband was sentenced to teu ye&m r penal servitude, and since fais incarceration she had heard nothing of-hini. Meanwhile the lady's charms had "smitten some susceptible swain who had made her an offer of marriage, and her objwrt in consulting the magistrate was to. know -if -she could legally marry again. It need hardly be said, that Mr . Lushingtou's reply was a decided negative. An English newspaper, coumieuting on this case, says*:— This young woman Hiiist be typical of many other wives whose husbands -are in penal, servitude, aud it becomes a matter of coueiderabie social importance whether some enactment should not be passed under which many a wife may obtain a legal release from a criminal who is ee«t«utj«d to more thi»i» a given period of hnprisHunient. We oan easily umlerstuud the "deep disappointment" which the applicant f«lt when she found «uo was irrevocably tied to a eonviefc f<*r tho rest of liar life. This is punishing two persona for ouo crime.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 64, 8 November 1886, Page 3
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211A Haw m the Marriage Laws Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 64, 8 November 1886, Page 3
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