Seduction
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seduction · Actions for seduction · loss of service in seduction cases
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The Law of Torts
The tort allowing a parent or master to sue for the seduction of a daughter or servant, formally grounded in loss of service.
Then, if seduction in its ordinary sense of physical and moral corruption is part of the wrong-doer’s conduct, it is quite in accordance with principles admitted in other parts of the law that this should be a recognized ground for awarding exemplary damages.
with the result that in the class of cases most prominent in modern practice, namely, actions brought by a parent (or person in loco parentis) for the seduction of a daughter, the test of the plaintiff’s right has come to be, not whether he has been injured as the head of a family, but whether he can make out a constructive “loss of service”.
The capricious working of the action for seduction in modern practice has often been the subject of censure.
Law in a Free State
The legal cause of action allowing a parent to claim damages for loss of a daughter's service resulting from her seduction, criticised as a disguised remedy for injured feelings.
just as the barbarous claim for loss of service in seduction cases is merely a straining of the law to give a parent compensation, not for loss of service, but for injured feelings.
Would they repeal all law punishing seduction, by making proof of consent a sufficient justification-and at all ages?