ILLUSTRATIONS
(a) A trunk or a work-box is not a husband, as it is not a moving, though a moveable piece of property.
(b) Cattle are not husbands, for though capable of locomotion, they cannot be at the absolute disposal of any woman, as they often display a will of their own.
(c) Men in the married state, having no will of their own, are husbands.
3. A wife is a woman having the right of property in a husband.
EXPLANATION
The right of property includes the right of flagellation.
4. “The married state” is a state of penance into which men voluntarily enter for sins committed in a previous life.
CHAPTER III
OF PUNISHMENTS
5. The punishments to which offenders are liable under the provisions of this Code are;
FIRST, IMPRISONMENT.
Which may be either within the four walls of a bed-room, or within the four walls of a house.
Imprisonment is of two descriptions, namely,
(1) Rigorous, that is, accompanied by hard words.
(2) Simple.
SECONDLY, Transportation, that is to another bed-room.
THIRDLY, Matrimonial servitude.
FOURTHLY, Forfaiture of Pocket-money.
