Issues of presumed consent due to marriage were viewed rather differently in 1888. Are you entirely sure that a test case today would be regarded as open and shut? After all, you were allowed certain other things within marriage then that you're not now.
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baggyeyes
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Date: 2005-01-05 11:25 pm (UTC)