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[1744] 2 Elchies 17
Subject_1 ADULTERY.
Date: Steedman
v.
Couper
20 January 1744
Case No.No. 1.
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Found, That a husband has a civil action of damages against one who had committed adultery with his wife, even though there had been no trial or conviction in any criminal court; only the wife was divorced; and on advising the proof found the libel proved, and found it no sufficient defence, that before the defender knew her, she had been debauched by other three men; and found the defender liable in damages and expenses; particularly found him liable in the expense of the process of divorce, and of the appeal in that process, and in the expense of this process; and allowed him to give in his account of damage through loss of business. (See Dict. voce Reparation, No. 8, p. 13909.)
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