Marriage and Divorce, 1867-1906U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - Divorce |
Contents
| 391 | |
| 395 | |
| 398 | |
| 401 | |
| 407 | |
| 414 | |
| 422 | |
| 423 | |
| 59 | |
| 62 | |
| 66 | |
| 73 | |
| 81 | |
| 90 | |
| 96 | |
| 103 | |
| 106 | |
| 110 | |
| 113 | |
| 118 | |
| 123 | |
| 127 | |
| 132 | |
| 138 | |
| 164 | |
| 182 | |
| 187 | |
| 188 | |
| 264 | |
| 329 | |
| 382 | |
| 440 | |
| 446 | |
| 451 | |
| 458 | |
| 466 | |
| 468 | |
| 474 | |
| 475 | |
| 478 | |
| 484 | |
| 485 | |
| 494 | |
| 495 | |
| 501 | |
| 505 | |
| 507 | |
| 513 | |
| 519 | |
| 521 | |
| 525 | |
| 528 | |
| 533 | |
Common terms and phrases
5-year period absolute divorce action for divorce adultery age of consent alimony amended annexed Arkansas authorized AVERAGE ANNUAL NUMBER average is based banns bed and board bigamous marriages bigamy board of health cause celebrated cent certificate civil Code cohabitation consanguinity contract County clerk cruelty custody Data lacking declared decree of divorce defendant desertion divorces granted divorces reported females filing habitual drunkenness husband or wife impediment imprisonment incestuous Indian Territory insane issued jurisdiction lacking or incomplete limited divorce marriage license marry minister neglect to provide North Atlantic division North Carolina North Central NUMBER OF DIVORCES obtained parental consent penalty Person solemnizing marriage petition plaintiff population prior prohibited degrees publication registrar Remarriage residence Return of marriage Revised Statutes riage Service of process South Atlantic South Central division South Dakota statistics Subsequent marriage TABLE 53.-POPULATION taken to form tion Total number valid void voidable Voidable marriages Washington
Popular passages
Page 238 - Marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract, to which the consent of parties capable of making it is necessary. Consent alone will not constitute marriage; it must be followed by a solemnization, or by a mutual assumption of marital rights, duties, or obligations.
Page 208 - Marriages between parents and children, ancestors and descendants of every degree, and between brothers and sisters of the half as well as the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews, are incestuous, and void from the beginning, whether the relationship is legitimate or illegitimate.
Page 210 - Marriages between parents and children, including grand-parents and grand-children of every degree, between brothers and sisters of the half as well as of the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, are declared to be incestuous and absolutely void. This section shall extend to illegitimate as well as legitimate children and relations.
Page 261 - The Legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say: First — Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace, Police Judges, and of Constables. Second — For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors.
Page 244 - No marriage solemnized before any person professing to be a justice of the peace or a minister of the gospel, shall be deemed or adjudged to be void, nor shall the validity thereof be in any way affected, on account of any want of jurisdiction or authority in such...
Page 321 - By this section it is provided that 'a decree declaring a marriage void or dissolved at the suit or claim of either party shall have the effect to terminate such marriage as to both parties, except that neither party shall be capable of contracting marriage with a third person, and if he or she does so contract shall be liable therefor as if...
Page 229 - Unless such former husband or wife was absent and not known to such person to be living for the space of five successive years immediately preceding such subsequent marriage, or was generally reputed or believed by such person to be dead at the time such subsequent marriage was contracted; In either of which cases the subsequent marriage is valid until its nullity is adjudged by a competent tribunal.
Page 270 - Provided, That if any inhabitant of this state shall go into another state, territory or country in order to obtain a decree of divorce for a cause which occurred while ' the parties resided in this state, or for a cause which is not ground for divorce under the laws of this state, a decree so obtained shall be of no force or effect in this state.
Page 238 - That the party in whose behalf it is sought to have the marriage annulled was under the age of legal consent, and such marriage was contracted without the consent of his or her parents or guardian, or person having charge of him or her ; unless, after attaining the age of consent, such party for any time freely cohabited with the other as husband or wife ; 2.
Page 310 - No divorce can be granted upon the default of the defendant or upon the uncorroborated statement, admission, or testimony of the parties, or upon any statement or finding of fact made by a referee; but the court must, in addition to any statement or finding of the referee, require proof of the facts alleged and such proof if not taken before the court, must be upon written questions and answers.