Jeroloman waved that hat. "Well, well! I thought I told you. As it is, if you will take the trouble to look at the laws of 1901, you will find that common-law marriages are inhibited."
"Hum! Ha! And if you will trouble to look at the Laws of 1907, you will find they are inhibited no longer."
Jeroloman stared. "I have yet to learn of it."
Dunwoodie repocketed his towel. "Is it possible? Then when the opportunity occurs you might inform yourself. At the same time let me recommend the Court of Appeals for March. You may find there additional instruction. But I see you are going. Don't let me detain you."
Jeroloman sat down. "What case are you referring to?"
"The Matter of Ziegler."
Uncertainly Jeroloman's steel-blue eyes shifted. "It seems to me I read the syllabus."
"Then your powers of concealment are admirable."
"But just what does it hold?"
"Can it be that you don't remember? Well, well!—to borrow your own agreeable mode of expression—it holds that common-law marriages that were valid before and until the enactments which you were good enough to cite, were again made valid by their appeal in Chapter 742 of the Laws of 1907."