There is a proposed law for this new country that a husband may trade in his wife in the first year of marriage.
I can't understand the above . What does it mean? It was a proposed law so it means it wasn't passed?
It is a proposed law, so they have not yet passed it.
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red park 287a husband may trade in his wife.
= a husband may annul his marriage or get a divorce
red park 287trade in his wife
He can summarily divorce his current wife and marry another woman, in effect, making a human exchange.