Chaste

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.

Actually pure as to conduct and principle; virtuous. ^^^^^^ Chaste character. Personal^^^^e; moral purity. ^^^^, Refers not to reputafcon but to moral qualities — to what a person really is. 2 Actual personal virtue — actually chaste and pure in conduct and principle. Applies to one who, having fallen, has subsequently reformed and become chaste. ^ j Although a female, from ignorance or other cause, may have so low a standard of propriety as to commit or permit indelicate acts or familiarities, yet, if she have enough of the sense of virtue that she would not surrender her person, unless seduced to do so under a promise of marriage, she cannot be said to be a woman of " unchaste character " within the meaning of a statute punishing seduction under a promise of marriage.* Chastity. The virtue which prevents un- ^ lawful sexual commerce. Offenses against chastity are: fornication, adultery, incest, seduction, lascivious cai Tiage, keeping or frequenting houses of prostitution, bigamy, marrying the husband or wife of another, obscene libels, sodomy, bestiality. Solicitation of chastity. Inviting another to commit adultery or fornication. A solicitation is not an attempt. Until some forbidden overt act is committed, the law will not detect and punish the intent. The contrary rule would be impracticable, s Charges of unchaste conduct are seldom made in direct words; usually by insinuation. However made, they are slanderous when they convey to the mind of the hearers the meaning that the peraon in question is unchaste.* See Attempt; Bad, 1; Pretium, Pudicitise.