Is there any case law in which a sexual assault is not a rape but a seduction?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mackenzie v. Palmer, 1920 CanLII 155 (SK CA):
Garrow, J.A. went further and held, following Kennedy v. Shea, 110 Mass. 147, that an action would lie, although trespass vi et armis might have been sustained, and that it would be no defence that the offence was rape and not seduction.
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