seduction

seduction
The act of leading astray. Being lead astray. In the ordinary legal sense, the act of a man in inducing a woman to surrender her chastity. Morehead v Commonwealth, 194 Ky 592, 240 SW 93. The act of a man in inducing a chaste woman to have unlawful sexual intercourse with him. 47 Am J1st Seduc § 2. The act of persuading or inducing a woman of previous chaste character to depart from the path of virtue by the use of any species of arts, persuasion, or wiles which are calculated to have and do have that effect, and result in her ultimately submitting her person to the sexual embraces of the person accused. 47 Am J1st Seduc § 2. To seduce a woman is to corrupt, deceive, and draw her aside from the path of virtue which she was pursuing, by such acts and wiles as are calculated to operate upon a virtuous female. State v Eckler, 106 Mo 585, 590. In some instances, particularly in a case where a wife sues as wronged by the defendant in an alleged seduction of plaintiff's husband, the word "seduction" has reference to the misconduct of a woman toward a man. 27 Am J1st H & W §§ 522 et seq.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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