Note 38 — THE THREE CALENDERS, SONS OF KINGS, AND THE FIVE LADIES OF BAGDAD (continued 2)
Reading edition
The Mussulmans are allowed by the Koran to beat their wives, so long as they do not make a bruise. The husband on this occasion must have broken the law.
Some such permission was given by an English judge, Sir John Buller; who declared the stick used must not be thicker than his thumb, from whence he obtained the sobriquet of "Thumb Buller."