[lbo-talk] The Common Law and Wifebeating

[jeffrey fisher]

so, what does the otherwise clause mean, here? especially in the 
context of correcting women being like correcting slaves?

i'm reminded of the butler in "The Shining" . . . "I corrected her" . . 
.

j

On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 12:02 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


> But this power of correction was confined
> within reasonable bounds;58 and the husband was
> prohibited to use any violence to his wife, aliter
> quam ad virum, ex causa regiminis et castigationis
> uxoris fuae, licite et rationabiliter pertinet [other
> than as licitly and reasonably pertains to the husband
> for the rule and correction of his wife].