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Show TOR BROKEN HEART VARYING LAWS IN BREACH OF PROMISE CASE8. Not Easy for Jilted Damsel to Recover Damages from Faithless Swain ' Practical Arrangement Prevails Pre-vails In Germany. England Is the best place from the plaintiff's point of view for a breach of promise action. All other countries seem to regard with grave suspicion any attempt to recover monetary compensation com-pensation for the loss of a prospective husband, and unless the plaintiff has n strong case Indeed It Is never worth her whllo to carry her grief Into the law courts, says Tlt-Fllts. In France breach of promise cases nre raro for the 'simple reason that tho law requires tho plaintiff to prove that Bhe has suffered pecuniary loss. Now hls is not an easy thing to do on the part of the lady, especially In a country where a girl without a dot-that dot-that Is n marriage portion has a poor chance of finding a husband. Holland and Austria have adopted tho French system, and the result has beon about tho same. Hreach actions are rare, Ihe injured damsels or their relatives usually taking the law Into their own hands. Practical Germany, as might bo expected, ex-pected, has perhaps the best method for solving this problem. When a young couple become engaged they have to go through a public betrothal coremony that ought to knock all the shyness out of them. In tho local town Jiall the pair declare their affection, willingness to marry, eh:., ending by signing a collection of documents that apparently leave no loophole for escape. es-cape. I But If either party to the contract ( wishes to withdraw another Journey Is ' undertaken to the town hall and an-1 other collection of documents signed, witnessed and sealed. Then the authorities au-thorities determine the question of compensation should It be claimed. In this connection It may be said that the man can, and often does, claim a solatium for his wounded feelings. The usual award Is one-fifth of the mar-1 'lage dowry. It Is easy to understand, when all this Is remembered, how loath the young people of Germany aro to break their betrothal oaths. As tho law of Italy offers little or no protection whatever to Jilted damsels dam-sels and swains It Is not surprising that the stiletto should bo the favorite mode of deciding breach of promise cases. The Italian law demands that the person suing for "breach" shall produce a written promise to marry from the defendant; otherwise the action ac-tion cannot proceed. This difficulty is almost Insurmountable, and ho Italian Ital-ian judges are seldom troubled to adjudicate ad-judicate between one-time lovers. To bring an rctinn for breach of promise of marriage against a reigning reign-ing monarch is an achievement, but It has been done, and by an English lady. It is now 15 years since Miss Jenny Mlghell sued tho sultan of Jo-liore, Jo-liore, and ns there was a doubt whether wheth-er the dusky one was actually a reigning reign-ing monarch the case was allowed to , come Into court. But the Judge quick-, ly disposed of the action by ruling It Inadmissible for the reason referred to ' and Miss Mlghell was nonsuited. It is remarkable that one of the two actions which have brought verdicts of 10,000 each to plaintiffs should have had for Its defendant the editor of a matrimonial paper. The second case was between a well-known actress and the eldest son f an earl. I |