DOMESTIC WARS.
NO PROTECTION FOR LIBEL By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London. May 17. A wife cannot be libelled by her husband was the decision of the Recorder in the Central Criminal Court, in quashing an indictment against a husband for having published a defamatory libel against his wife. The defence ’ quoted a leading case on the subject, in which it was held that a wife could not proceed against her husband for libel as a libel might arise from angry passions and a desire for revenge, which might lead to a breach of the peace. The Recorder commented: “I suppose the Judge thought the passions aught to be settled in the domestic forum. If a man hits his wife she has a remedy, but if he inflicts the more severe injury of writing libellous postcards she has none.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1922, Page 5
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137DOMESTIC WARS. Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1922, Page 5
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