Don't forget this is Texas where we just passed a law to make it double double no takebacks illegal for anyone to have anything even resembling a marriage unless you're a man marrying a woman, or vice versa.
No power in the 'verse can stop me.
River ,'War Stories'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Daisy Jane - Nov 26, 2005 9:21:00 am PST #7052 of 10006
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Kat - Nov 26, 2005 9:43:24 am PST #7053 of 10006
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
bon bon, it makes it, or at least did as late as 1974, a justifiable homicide.
§ ita § - Nov 26, 2005 10:00:49 am PST #7054 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's hard to explain.
I understand.
bon bon - Nov 26, 2005 10:01:43 am PST #7055 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
My suspicion is that complete justification b/c of adultery, if it was the law, was in the code until the Texas penal code was completely overhauled in 1973, because few changes had been made to the criminal code until then. I'm curious whether this is the case, so I'm trying to find the original 1973 public law.
Kat - Nov 26, 2005 10:50:21 am PST #7056 of 10006
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
okay. meanwhile, I'm going to keep writing the paper. I think during the 74 overhaul, they removed the adultury as homicide, as far as I can tel in the citations.
Scrappy - Nov 26, 2005 11:02:54 am PST #7057 of 10006
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Have taken the dog to the dog park, and all our favorite dogs and people were there, so much friendly standing around chatting and watching dogs play was had by all. Now doing laundry and drinking tea out of the purty new mugs we bought at a little Oaxacan grocery for a buck apiece. I am also wearing jeans I couldn't fit into a month ago, which adds to the general contented glow.
Allyson - Nov 26, 2005 11:11:44 am PST #7058 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Should I play Scrabble, or go get my palm read? Hm....
Scrappy - Nov 26, 2005 11:13:34 am PST #7059 of 10006
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Palm read. OBVIOUSLY.
Nora Deirdre - Nov 26, 2005 11:30:32 am PST #7060 of 10006
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I am making a mix for an old friend of mine and it is SO MUCH FUN. I've been listening to Squeeze and Crowded House and Texas, and the Buffy musical... so fun.
bon bon - Nov 26, 2005 11:39:03 am PST #7061 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
You're right. Texas did have an unusual paramour statute. Before 1974, Vernon's Ann.P.C. Art.1220 provided 'Homicide is justifiable when committed by the husband upon one taken in the act of adultery with the wife, provided the killing take place before the parties to the act have separated. Such circumstance cannot justify a homicide where it appears that there has been, on the part of the husband, any connivance in or assent to the adulterous connection.' It was removed in the 1973 overhaul. I don't know when adultery was removed from the heat-of-passion mitigation defense, though. but it's not there anymore.