Seduction
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seduction · Actions for seduction · loss of service in seduction cases
in the texts
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.
Actions for seduction in modern practice:
The capricious working of the action for seduction in modern practice has often been the subject of censure.
Some loss of service, or possibility of service, must be shown as consequent on the seduction, since that is, in theory, the ground of action;
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.
Would they repeal all law punishing seduction, by making proof of consent a sufficient justification-and at all ages?
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.