A husband had no right to confine his wife in order to enforce a decree for restitution of conjugal rights.
Citations:
[1891-4] All ER Rep 61, [1891] 1 QB 67 I
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v Miller Assz 1954
A husband was charged with rape of his wife after she had left him and petitioned for divorce. He was also charged with an assault.
Held: There was no evidence which entitled the court to say that the wife’s implied consent to marital . .
Cited – Regina v R HL 23-Oct-1991
H has no right to sexual intercourse with W – rape
The defendant appealed against his conviction for having raped his wife, saying that intercourse with his wife was necessarily lawful, and therefore outside the statutory definition of rape. Due to the matrimonial difficulties, the wife had left . .
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Crime
Updated: 23 June 2022; Ref: scu.194942