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Dum casta vixerit
Dum casta vixerit (so long as she shall live chaste). In deeds of separation of husband and wife, it is not uncommonly provided that the allowance thereby insured by the husband to the wife shall continue only so long as she shall live a chaste life. This proviso is termed the 'dum casta clause.' As to the insertion of such a clause when the Court, in decreeing a dissolution of marriage, orders the husband to make an allowance to the wife, see Squire v. Squire, 1905, P. 4....
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Chasteness
Chastity purity...
Chastity
The state of being chaste purity of body freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse...
Continently
In a continent manner chastely moderately temperately...
Free-bench
Free-bench [sedes libera, Lat.], a widow's dower out of copyholds to which she was entitled by the custom of some manors. It is regarded as an excrescence growing out of the husband's interest, and is indeed a continuance of his estate.The term free-bench is equally applicable to the estate which, by the custom of some manors, a husband takes in his wife's copyhold lands after her death, and anciently it was indiscriminately applied to that and to the widow's dower, but now the estate of the husband is called his curtesy, while the term free-bench is confined to the widow.Since free-bench is only claimable by special custom, the estate which a widow is to take, both as to its quantity, quality, and duration, must be such as the custom prescribes. It is generally a third for her life, as at Common Law, but it is sometimes a fourth part only, and sometimes but a portion of the rent. In many manors the wife takes the whole for her life, in others she takes the inheritance.Frequently the c...
Pr'mium pudiciti'
Pr'mium pudiciti', the consideration given by the seducer of a chaste woman for her defilement. See Annandale v. Harris, (1727) 2 P Wms 432; 3 Bro PC 445....
Seduction
Seduction, means the offence that occurs when a man entices a woman of previously chaste character to have unlawful intercourse with him by means of persuasion, solicitation, promises or bribes, or other means not involving force, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1362.The inducing a girl or woman to part with her virtue for the first time, R. v. Moon, (1910) 1 KB 818. An action of seduction may be brought by a parent or person standing in loco parentis for enticing away or debauching of the girl, per quod servitium amisit, but no express contract of service need be proved; see Evans v. Walton, (1867) LR 2 CP 615. There must be a legal right or interest by the plaintiff in the services of the woman who has been seduced, Whitbourne v. Williams, (1901) 2 KB 722. A master also, not standing in the relation of a parent, may maintain this action for debauching his servant. The woman herself has no right of action. In ascertaining the amount of damages, the jury should regard not merely t...
Viduitatis professio
Viduitatis professio, the making a solemn profession to live a sole and chaste woman....
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