WIFE SOLD FOR £l2.
FRENCH PEASANTS GO TO LAW OVER THEIR BARGAIN. PARIS, March 19. The Court of the Haute Loire lias hefore it a Uise brought by a peasant who claims £l2O damages from (mother peasant for tlie Lou-fulfilment of a contract for the sale of his wife. Tlui man who brought the action bargained to buy the wife ol a neighbor for £l2. When the woman heard of the transaction she not only refused to lea\e her husband's house, but tol<l the two men stiongly what she thought of them. The buyer was furious at not bemgable to obtain tlie execution of a contract duly drawn up and signed, and lie determined to mek legal redress. It is suited that sales ; -.nd purchases of wives have 'taken place in the district several times during" UuttU yum
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 18 June 1907, Page 4
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138WIFE SOLD FOR £12. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 18 June 1907, Page 4
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