ACTIONS FOR BREACH OF PROMISE.

Kumara Times, Issue 518, 25 May 1878, Page 2

ACTIONS FOR BREACH OF PROMISE.

A petition has been presented to Parliament, signed by. Miss Lydia Becker, Rosana Battey, Sarah Maria Backhouse, and other ladies. It sets forth that marriage is the natural and honourable profession in which'the majoirity of wOm«n maintain themselves, by the discharge of the conjugal, social, and domestic duties, which appeitainto the position of a wife; that tho entrance on this profession comes to a woman through an offer or promise of marriage ; that tbe acceptance of such offer or promise debars the woman from forming other ties, and the breaking or non-performance of such promise hinders her from obtaining an establishment in life, inasmuch as a woman who has given her promise and affections to one man cannot transfer them to another without grievous loss• that men do not usually marry for a maintenance, while marriage is regarded as the proper ami usual means through which Women obtain a maintenance; therefore a breach of promise of marriage by a man to a woman causes m pecuniary loss which is nob usually suffered through a breach of promise by a woman to a man ; ami upon these and other grounds, the petioners pray that leave may not he granted to bring in a bill to abolish nations for breach of promise of marriage.