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...Parliament passed the Infants Custody Bill, which declared that children under seven were allowed to reside with their mother but only of the Lord Chancellor agreed to it and if the mother was of "good character" Lorster points out that it took until 1973 for the child custody laws to be completely reformed And finaly in 1882 the Married Woman's Property Not gave married women the same property rights as single women...
About the only instance of emotion breaking up this catalogue of bedroom antics is the tenderness that develops between Lauren and a client, an English lord who carries some diplomatic post. But the sense of imminent doom that hovers over the narrative is finally realized when it turns out that the people who set Lauren up with Lord Bullbeck wanted to use her as bait to trap the man. Theroux concludes the story with a rush of abductions, escapes, and assassinations more confusing than exciting...
...believes the parched and partly torn pages, dated in the late 1790's by a British diplomat. Lord Macartney, are the preliminary notes of Macartney's visit to China in the late 18th century. A full manuscript about the trip was eventually published...
King James I called on any citizen who knew of bribery of his judges to make a public accusation. One of the first to complain, John Wrenham, charged in 1617 that the learned Lord Chancellor Bacon had unfairly ruled against him. When Wrenham was unable to prove bribery, however, both his ears were cut off, after which he was "perpetually imprisoned." Four years later, Bacon finally confessed to a whole array of bribes, and Parliament fined him (pounds)40,000 and sentenced him to the Tower. The King majestically commuted the penalties...
...rates." During her scheduled meeting with President Reagan in Washington this week, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher intends to press for assurances that the Administration will take early steps to cut the U.S. budget deficit and thereby slow the rise of the American currency. Her Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Whitelaw, warned of "very serious consequences for the world economy" unless action is taken. Apparently bowing to that kind of pressure, Treasury Secretary James Baker revealed late in the week that the U.S. has changed its exchange-rate policy. By selling dollars on a more regular basis in foreign exchange...