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Chaste character

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

This term, as used in statutes, means actual personal virtue, and not reputation or good name. It may include the character of one who was formerly unchaste but is reformed.

Kenyon v. People, 26 N. Y. 203, 84 Am. Dec. 177; Boak v. State, 5 Iowa, 430; People v. Nelson. 153 N. Y. 90, 46 N. H 1040, 60 Am. St. Rep. 592; People v. Mails, 94 Mich. 630, 54 N. W. 488.