The husband also, by the old law, might give his wife moderate correction.... But, with us, in the politer reign of Charles the Second, this power of correction began to be doubted; and a wife may now have security of the peace agianst her husband; or, in return, a husband against his wife. Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, still claim and exert their ancient priviledge...
--William Blackstone, Commentary on the Laws of England 445 (1765)
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