Promising to marry a woman to seduce her is illegal.
You better follow through with your promise if you plan to seduce a woman in Mississippi.
97-29-55. Seduction of female over age of eighteen by promised or pretended marriage.
If any person shall obtain carnal knowledge of any woman, or female child, over the age of eighteen years, of previous chaste character, by virtue of any feigned or pretended marriage or any false or feigned promise of marriage, he shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years; but the testimony of the female seduced, alone, shall not be sufficient to warrant a conviction.
Sources: Codes, 1892, 1298; Laws, 1906, 1372; Hemingway’s 1917, 1108; Laws, 1930, 1137; Laws, 1942, 2374; Laws, 1888, p. 89.
Related Stupid Laws, Crazy Laws, and just plain Stupid Laws:
- Propose and your stuck with the bitch law.
- You can marry your own family member
- Five years in prison for seducing and corrupting an unmarried girl
- It’s illegal to have sex in Florida
- It’s illegal to howl or hoot at a woman in Mobile
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