SEDUCTION. The offence of a man who abuses the simplicity and
confidence of a woman to obtain by false promises what she ought not to
grant.
2. The woman being particeps criminis, has no remedy for the mere
seduction, nor is there, to the discredit of the law, a direct remedy in
her parents. The seducer may be sued, though not. directly or
ostensibly for the seduction; but for the consequent inability to
perform those services for which she was accountable to her master, or
to her parent, who, for this purpose, is obliged to assume that less
endearing relation; and if it cannot be proved that she filled that
office, the action cannot be sustained. 7 Mann. & Gr. 1033. It
follows, therefore, that when the daughter is of full age, and the
father is not entitled to her services, and actually, she is not in his
service, the father can maintain no action for the seduction. 5 Harr.
& J. 27; 1 Wend. 447; 3 Pennsyl. 49; 10 John. 115. Vide 2 Watts 474;
9 John. 387; 2 Wend. 459; 5 Cowen 106; 2 Penn. 583; 6 Munf. 587; 2 A.
K. Marsh. 128; 2 Overt. 93; 9 John. R. 387; 2 New Reports, 476; 6 East,
887; Peake's Rep. 253; 11 East, 24; 5 East, 45; 2 T. R. 4; 2 Selw. N. P.
1001; 2 Phil. Ev. 156; 3 Chitt. Bl. Com. 140, n.; 7 Com. Dig. 318; 6 M.
& W. 55.
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