solicitation of chastit

SOLICITATION OF CHASTITY. The asking a person to commit adultery or 
fornication. 
     2. This of itself, is not an indictable offence. Salk. 382; 2 Chit. Pr. 
478. The contrary doctrine, however, has been held in Connecticut. 7 Conn. 
Rep. 267. 
     3. In England, the bare solicitation of chastity is punished in the 
ecclesiastical courts. 2 Chit. Pr. 478. Vide Str. 1100; 10 Mod. 384; Sayer, 
33; 1 Hawk. ch. 74; 2 Ld. Raym. 809. 
     4. The civil law punished arbitrarily the person who solicited the 
chastity of another. Dig. 47, 11, 1. Vide To persuade; 3 Phillim. R. 508.