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Colonial America bastardy laws were laws, statutes, or other legal precedents set forth by the English colonies in North America. This page focuses on the rules pertaining to bastardy that became law in the New England colonies of Massachusetts , Connecticut , and Pennsylvania from the early seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century.
Adultery laws are the laws in various countries that deal with extramarital sex.Historically, many cultures considered adultery a very serious crime, some subject to severe punishment, especially in the case of extramarital sex involving a married woman and a man other than her husband, with penalties including capital punishment, mutilation, or torture. [1]
The last adultery charge in New York appears to have been filed in 2010 against a woman who was caught engaging in a sex act in a public park, but it was later dropped as part of a plea deal.
Timeline of women in war in the United States, pre-1945; Timeline of women in warfare in Colonial America; Timeline of women in warfare and the military in the United States, 2011–present; Timeline of women in warfare in the United States before 1900; Timeline of women in warfare in the United States from 1900 to 1949
These multi-year periods are commonly identified in American history. The existence and dating of some of these periods is debated by historians. Plantation era ( c. 1700 – c. 1860 )
Adultery, a crime of the heart, is no longer a crime in the state of New York. You can now freely cheat on your spouse in New York without fear of prosecution after 117 years Skip to main content
1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature; 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New York City.