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The First Law Synopsis

After her father suffers financial ruin, Norma Webb advertises for boarders and finally accepts the application of young philanthropist Hugh Godwin. Norma is deeply in love with Hugh, but she mysteriously refuses his proposal of marriage. Later he learns that some time ago she had married the scoundrel who swindled her father. One night the husband enters her room and tries to force his attentions on her, whereupon she shoots him and flees. A detective discovers the body and threatens to expose Norma unless she uses her influence to secure for him Hugh's financial secrets. Desperate, Norma marries Hugh and obeys the blackmailer's orders until finally, unable to endure her own dishonesty any longer, she confesses everything to her new husband. Hugh and Norma track the detective to his home just in time to witness him murder the first husband, who merely had been wounded by Norma's shot. The detective is arrested, leaving Hugh and Norma free to enjoy their happiness.

The Woman's Law Synopsis

After dissolute millionaire George Orcutt stabs his friend artist Lucas Emmet to death during a quarrel over Emmet's girlfriend, Orcutt confesses to his wife Gail. She finds a dazed man on a park bench who looks like her husband, and recalling a dinner conversation in which some judges and her friend, District Attorney John Kent, argued that everyone has a double, lets her husband escape for their son's sake, and has the man, who suffers from amnesia, take his place. The impostor is declared insane and sent to a sanitarium. Upon his release, he lives with Gail as her husband, still without remembering his previous life. Reporter Frank Fisher sees Orcutt in a saloon, and investigates. When Orcutt, jealous of the impostor, breaks into his home to demand money from Gail, the butler, thinking that he is a thief, shoots and kills him. Seeing that the impostor, really Keith Edgerton, who now remembers that he went into shock upon learning that his parents died, and Gail are in love, Fisher and Kent agree to keep the matter secret.