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Habitual drunkard
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Drunkenness
and the (English) Inebriates Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 60). The Act of 1879 defines an habitual drunkard as a 'person who, not being amenable to any jurisdiction in lunacy, is, notwithstanding, by reason of habitual … is compulsory in certain cases, authorizing the Court to order the detention in an inebriate reformatory of an habitual drunkard convicted on indictment of an offence committed under the influence of drink, and punishable with imprisonment or penal
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Judicial separation
of persistent cruelty, forcing her to live apart from him, or on the ground of his being an habitual drunkard [(English) Licensing Act, 1902, s. 5]; and relief can also be obtained by a husband where the wife … Act, 1902, s. 5]; and relief can also be obtained by a husband where the wife is an habitual drunkard (ibid.). Under Maintenance Acts the husband can be ordered to make weekly payments to his wife, which can
Black list
s. 6 of the Licensing Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 28), there is power to put an 'habitual drunkard,' if he consents [Commissioner of Metropolitan Police v. Donovan, (1903) 1 KB 895], on a list kept by
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