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De Grosbero v - [1765] Mor 16456 (10 August 1765)
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[1765] Mor 16456
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A young woman being engaged in a noble family as a teacher of music, dancing, &c. it was discovered, soon after her entry, that she was of a loose character, and had born a bastard-child; and for these, and other reasons, being turned off, she brought an action of damages against her employer. She denied that she had ever born a child; and to redargue the proof that had been led on that subject, she offered an inspectio ventris, by midwives or physicians. Answered, That the method of investigation proposed was not only uncertain, but highly indecent; and, on that account, Justinian had forbidden it to be used as the criterion of puberty. The Lords refused her demand.
