INTRODUCTION

Whereas it is expedient to provide a special Penal Code for the coercion of refractory husbands and others who dispute the supreme authority of Woman, it is hereby enacted as follows:

1. This Act shall be entitled the “Matrimonial Penal Code” and shall take effect on all natives of India in the married state.

DEFINITIONS.

2. A husband is a piece of moving and moveable property at the absolute disposal of a woman

ILLUSTRATIONS.

a) A trunk or a work-box is not a husband, as it is not a moving, though a moveable piece of property.

b) Cattle are not husbands, for though capable of locomotion, they cannot be at the absolute disposal of any woman, as they often display a will of their own.

c) Men in the married state, having no will of their own, are husbands.

3. A wife is a woman having the right or property in a husband.

EXPLANATIONS.

The right of property includes the right of flagellation.

4. “The married state” is a state of penance into which men voluntarily enter for sins committed in a previous life.