17. Whoever shall render allegiance to any woman other than his wife shall be guilty of incontinence.
EXPLANATION
(1) To show the slightest kindness to a young woman who is not the wife, is to render such young woman allegiance.
ILLUSTRATION
A is the husband of B, and C is a young woman. A likes C’s baby because he is nice child and gives him buns to eat. A has rendered allegiance to C.
EXPLANATION
(2) Wives shall be entitled to imagine offences under this section, and no husband shall be entitled to be acquitted on the ground that he has not committed the offence.
The simple accusation shall always be held to be conclusive proof of the offence.
EXPLANATION
(3) The right of imagining offences under this section shall be held to belong in general to old wives, and to women with old and ugly husbands; and a young wife shall not be entitled to assume the right unless she can prove that she has a particularly cross temper, or was brought up a spoilt child or is herself supremely ugly.
18. Whoever is guilty of incontinence shall be liable to all the punishments mentioned in this Code and to other punishments not mentioned in the Code.
CHAPTER VII
OF OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ARMY AND NAVY
19. The army and navy shall in this Code mean the sons and the daughters and daughters-in-law.
20. Whoever abets the committing of mutiny by a son or a daughter or a daughter-in-law shall be liable to be punished by scolding and tears and lamentations.
