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Critics argue that legal systems have in the past endorsed these traditions of male domination and it is only in recent years that abusers have begun to be punished for their behaviour.
Some laws in past centuries have however specifically prohibited punitive wife-beating: " The Body of Liberties adopted in 1641 by the Massachusetts Bay colonists states, ' Every married woman shall be free from bodily correction or stripes by her husband, unless it be in his own defense from her assault.
' In 1879, Harvard University law scholar wrote, " The cases in the American courts are uniform against the right of the husband to use any chastisement, moderate or otherwise, toward the wife, for any purpose.

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