r to herself caused by intoxication. She may recover damages for mental
anguish, shame, or suffering, resulting from injuries to the person, and
for injuries to, or loss of property, and means of support.

[Sidenote: Parties in action for seduction.]

An unmarried female may prosecute as plaintiff, an action for her own
seduction and recover such damages as may be found in her favor.
[Sec.3760.] In a civil action for damages it is not necessary that an
unmarried woman be of previously chaste character to enable her to
recover for loss of health, physical suffering, etc., but without that
she cannot recover for loss of character.

[Sidenote: For injury or death of minor child.]

A father, or in case of his death, or imprisonment, or desertion of his
family, the mother may prosecute as plaintiff, an action for the
expenses and actual loss of service resulting from the injury or death
of a minor child. [Sec.3761.]

[Sidenote: Married women]

A married woman may, in all cases, sue and be sued without joining her
husband with her, to the same extent as if she were unmarried, and an
attachment or judgment in such action shall be enforced by or against
her as if she were a single woman. [Sec.3667.]

[Sidenote: Defense.]

If husband or wife are sued together, the wife may defend for her own
right; and if either neglect to defend, the other may defend for that
one also. [Sec.3768.]

[Sidenote: When husband or wife deserts family.]

When a husband has deserted his family, the wife may prosecute or defend
in his name any action which he might have prosecuted or defended, and
shall have the same powers and rights therein as he might have had; and
under like circumstances the same right shall apply to the husband upon
the desertion of the wife. [Sec.3769.]

[Sidenote: Evidence. Husband and wife.]

Neither the husband nor wife shall in any case, be a witness against the
other, except in a criminal prosecution for a crime committed one
against the other, or in a civil action or proceeding one against the
other; but they may in all civil and criminal cases, be witness for each
other. [Sec.4891.] In prosecutions for adultery or bigamy the husband or
wife, as the case may be, is a competent witness against the other.

[Sidenote: Communications between husband and wife.]

Neither husband nor wife can be examined in any case as to any
communication made by one to the other while married, nor shall they
after the marriage r