CHINESE MARRIAGE PRESERVATION,

No. 42 of 1912.

2271.

with having committed adultery or whom such person is charged with receiving or harbouring, to believe that such woman was a spinster or to believe that she was a widow.

8. A person who receives or harbours a Chinese woman who has left her husband because of his cruelty to her or because of his failure properly to maintain her shall not be deemed to have received or harboured such married woman without reasonable excuse.

[s. 9, rep. No. 43 of 1912 Supp. Sched.]

No. 43 of 1912, incorporated generally,

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