previous chaste character
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A familiar expression characterizing the victim of seduction.
As the expression is used in the ordinary statutory definition of seduction under promise of marriage, as seducing and having illicit connection with an unmarried female of "previous chaste character," it does not mean purity of mind, nor purity of heart, but merely purity of body; that is, that the female has never sustained illicit relations with anyone prior to the alleged offense of the defendant. State v Holler, 32 SD 43, 142 NW 657.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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