"NO LOVE MATCHES."
Delivering judgment in a breach of promise case, the President of a. Paris corrt expressed the view that marriage no longer responded to the conception of former limes, when it. was based on mutual love. To-day it was simply a financial contract. The real reason of marriage, he said, wa.i money. The, man was on the ''lookout" for the dowry, and the woman "bought" a protector and a trustee for the management of her property. It was regrettable that young couples did not draw up a contract at the moment of their engagement —with a penalty clause in the event of it being broken of)".
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 233, 20 February 1913, Page 8
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108"NO LOVE MATCHES." Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 233, 20 February 1913, Page 8
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