---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Prostitutes abandoned their calling. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------| Went to |Transferred|Sent to| |Left the| |Committed| | service.| to the |Prison.|Married.|Country.|Died.|Suicide. |Total.| |commission | | | | | | | | for the | | | | | | | | Poor. | | | | | | | --------|-----------|-------|--------|--------|-----|---------|------| 20 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 63 | 14 | 27 | - | 24 | 4 | 3 | - | 77 | 15 | 16 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 2 | - | 49 | 20 | 17 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 62 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 7 | - | 51 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 9 | - | 6 | 1 | 44 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 27 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------+ By a code of 1734, promises of marriage might be either verbal in the presence of witnesses, or written and certified by two witnesses. Widows acting against the consent of their guardians, and women of bad repute, were excluded from the benefit of this code. A servant pregnant by her master, her master's son, or any one domiciled in her master's house, could not plead a promise of marriage. Corroborative testimony was sometimes required in affiliation cases, where the putative father denied his liability on oath. Divorce was allowed on simple abandonment for seven years; desertion for three years; in case of sentence of perpetual imprisonment; of ante-nuptial impotence; of ante-nuptial venereal disease; of insanity; and of adultery. Divorce by mutual consent might also take place, but three years' separation from bed and board was requisite as a preliminary. The king had a prerogative of divorce, without cause shown. Illegitimate children were to be supported by their father until two years old, according to his rank in life. They could not inherit the paternal property, but might take the mother's. They could be legitimatized by subsequent marriage or adoption. Infanticide was punished by beheading, and exhibiting the head of the criminal on a spike. Adultery is punished by law in both husband and wife. Practically it is seldom noticed.