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Actually, I was just discussing it with my sergeant, one of the old superseded laws in Kentucky, but still on the books, is that a man may beat his wife with a stick, provided the stick is no longer than 3 feet long and no bigger in diameter than his thumb
This is where the saying "Rule of thumb" comes from, and it is still a law in Britan along with the law that makes it illegal to push a perambulator on the pavement.