Incem-Diaey

See Arson. rNCERTA. See Cebtum. HfCEST.s Illicit intercourse between persons within those degrees of consanguinity as to which marriage is forbidden by law.' There may be a certain power exerted, resulting from age, relationship, or other circumstance, which overcomes the objections of the female, without amounting to that violence which would constitute rape.* Incestuous adultery or fornication.. The crime of adultery or fornication aggravated by the additional crime of incest. While cognizable as an offense under the canon law, incest does not seem to have been punishable by indictment at common law. It is now punishable by statutes, which also presc'ribe the prohibited degrees of kinship.' Where a defendant in an action for libel alleged that the plaintiff had committed incest from which she was pregnant, and did not attempt to prove the latter act, the plaintiff was held entitled to a verdict.* See Ignorance; Polygamy.