Word: inherited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought to trial (penalty: two years' imprisonment). Suddenly the Continental whoremongers found it convenient to get their fresh recruits from foreign fields, notably England, where, as Author Terrot puts it, "any child of twelve was legally competent to consent to her own seduction." (Exception: if she stood to inherit property, she was protected until she was 21.) In 1875 the age of consent in Britain was "with extreme difficulty" raised...