Family Desertion and Non-Support Laws (Volume 3 ); A Study of the Laws of the Various States Made in Connection with the Associated Charities, Washing (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1904 Excerpt: ... THE LAWS Besides the text reference is made in each case to the following points: The Definition of the Offense The State Law as to Extradition The Competency of the Wife as a Witness Desertion or Neglect as Ground for Divorce The Provision for a Civil Suit for Maintenance But where the text has already denned the offense or stated that the wife is a competent witness the subject is not again referred to. Where section numbers are alone given they refer to the revised or general statutes of the state mentioned elsewhere on the page, the title of which is not repeated. ALABAMA LAWS An Act to define and punish vagrancy.--Sec. 1 Any able-bodied person.... who quits his house and leaves his wife and children without means of subsistence; or any person who is able to work, and who does not work but hires out his minor children and lives upon their wages;.... is hereby declared to be a vagrant and must on conviction be fined not more than five hundred ($500) dollars and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months. Sec. 2. (Makes it the duty of the sheriff and constables of every county, and the police and town marshals or other like officers of every town and city, to give information about vagrants.) Sec. 3. (Repeals previous law in Code of 1896, Sec. 5628.) (Laws of 1903, No. 229, approved Sept. 22, 1903.) An Act to make the wife a competent witness, etc.--Sec. 1. In all cases where the husband is charged with abandoning his family and leaving them in danger of becoming a burden to the public, the wife shall be a competent witness against her husband. Sec. 2. (Repeals all inconsistent laws.) (Laws of 1903, No. 9, approved Feb. 2, 1903.) REMARKS The offense is not defined, but the punishment ma...