poor law is the act or law that defined the three classes of the poor.
poor law is the act or law that defined the three classes of the poor.
which act or law defined the three classes of the poor?
poor law
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the common law defined rape as "the carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly and against her will." the common law defined carnal knowledge as the penetration of the female sex organ by the male sex organ (it covered all other acts under the crime of sodomy). the crime of rape was unique in the respect that it focused on the victim's state of mind and actions in addition to that of the defendant. the victim was required to prove a continued state of physical resistance, and consent was conclusively presumed when a man had intercourse with his wife. "one of the most oft-quoted passages in our jurisprudence" on the subject of rape is by lord chief justice sir matthew hale from the 17th century, "rape...is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent." lord hale is also the origin of the remark, "in a rape case it is the victim, not the defendant, who is on trial." however, as noted by sir william blackstone in his "commentaries on the laws of england", by 1769 the common law had recognized that even a prostitute could suffer rape if she had not consented to the act.
rape in english law