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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

In the seduction statutes it means actua] virtue in conduct and principle. One who falls from virtue and afterwards reforms is chaste within the meaning of the statutes; Wood v. State, 18 <ia.

288, 15 Am. Rep. 664; Andre v. State, 5 la. 389, OS Am. Dec. 708; Carpenter v. People, 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 003; Boyce v. People, 55 N. Y. 644; Wilson v. State, 73 Ala. 527.