Idaho Code § 5-309
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5-309 ACTION FOR SEDUCTION — PROSECUTION BY PARENT OR GUARDIAN.
Official statutory text
5-309. Action for seduction — Prosecution by parent or guardian. The parents may prosecute as plaintiffs for the seduction of a daughter under the age of majority at the time of the seduction, and the guardian for the seduction of a ward under the age of majority at the time of seduction, though the daughter or ward be not living with or in the service of the plaintiff or plaintiffs at the time of the seduction, or afterward, and there be no loss of service, but if either the father or mother be dead or has abandoned his or her family, the other is entitled to sue alone.
History:
[(5-309) C.C.P. 1881, sec. 1901; R.S. & R.C., sec. 4098; am. 1915, ch. 120, sec. 2, p. 266; reen. C.L., sec. 4098; C.S., sec. 6642; I.C.A., sec. 5-309.]
History:
[(5-309) C.C.P. 1881, sec. 1901; R.S. & R.C., sec. 4098; am. 1915, ch. 120, sec. 2, p. 266; reen. C.L., sec. 4098; C.S., sec. 6642; I.C.A., sec. 5-309.]
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