A. Després, La Prostitution à Paris, p. 191.
F. Aurientis, Etude Medico-légale sur la jurisprudence actuelle à propos de la Transmission des Maladies Venériennes, Thèse de Paris, 1906.
In England at present "a husband knowingly and wilfully infecting his wife with the venereal disease, cannot be convicted criminally, either under a charge of assault or of inflicting grievous bodily harm" (N. Geary, The Law of Marriage, p. 479). This was decided in 1888 in the case of R. v. Clarence by nine judges to four judges in the Court for the Consideration of Crown Cases Reserved.