 Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, still claim and exert their ancient privilege: and the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty, in the case of any gross misbehaviour.  Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries - Seite 80von William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - 1893 - 533 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Blackstone - 1877 - 640 Seiten
...old law, might give his wife moderate correction, but in the polite reign of Charles II., this power began to be doubted ; and a wife may now have security of the peace against her husband, or, a husband against his wife. Yet the lower classes still exert their ancient privilege ; and the courts... | |
 | Sir Gooroodass Banerjee - 1879 - 514 Seiten
...Laws of England, that though this power of correction began to be doubted in the reign of Charles II," yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond...of the old common law, still claim and exert their antient privilege: and the Courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain his wife of her liberty,... | |
 | Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - 1880 - 824 Seiten
...But with us, in the reign of Charles the second, this power of correction began to be doubted (d) ; and a wife may now have security of the peace against her husband (c), or, in return, a husband against his wife (/). Tet the courts of law will still permit a husband... | |
 | Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - 1883 - 834 Seiten
...only modicum castigationem adhibere (s). But with us, in the reign of Charles the second, this power of correction began to be doubted («); and a wife...now have security of the peace against her husband (b), or, in return, a husband against his wife (e). Yet the courts of law will still permit a husband... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1883 - 542 Seiten
...which Blackstone, writing in the latter part of the last century, remarks upon, and then observes : " Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, still claim and exert this ancient privilege ; and the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1883 - 870 Seiten
...Hawk. PC I 2. But in later times this power of correc- : tion began to be doubted ; and a wife may n»w have security of the peace against her husband, or, in return, a husband against his wife ; 1 Bla. Com. 444 ; Stra. 478, 875, 1207 ; 2 Lev. 128. Any excess of correction by the parent, master,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Sprague - 1884 - 84 Seiten
...apprentices or children." Blackstone adds also : " In the politer reign of Charles II., this power of correction began to be doubted ; and a wife may...old common law, still claim and exert their ancient privilege."1 In a recent case in this Commonwealth, it was declared that beating or striking a wife... | |
 | Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - 1885 - 698 Seiten
...authority, over his wife. But with us, he says, in the politer reign of Charles the second, this power of correction began to be doubted ; and a wife may...security of the peace against her husband; or in return, the husband against the wife. Yet the lower rank of people (he says) who were always fond of the old... | |
 | Sydney Edward Williams - 1885 - 292 Seiten
...et fustibus acriter verberare uxorem. An ancient privilege, it has been quaintly observed, which " the lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, still claim and exert." This change is no doubt due to the operation of that uniform movement which, Sir Henry Maine tells... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1890 - 902 Seiten
...may now have security of the peace against her husband ;P or, in return, a husband against his wife.i Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond...of the old common law, still claim and exert their antient privilege : and J the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty,... | |
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