A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[708] See chap. xiv, i, b), below.

[709] Hening, Statutes, III, 149-51.

[710] See the act of 1705, ibid., 443, 444; and that of 1748, ibid., VI, 83.

[711] Ibid., III, 441, 442.

[712] See chap, xvi, where this legislation is treated in detail.

[713] O'Callaghan, Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist. of N. Y., III, 253.

[714] Hening, Statutes, I, 158, 182, 183 (1632).

[715] Ibid., 155.

[716] Ibid., 242. Cf. the act of the Commonwealth, 1657-58, ibid., 433.

[717] Ibid., II, 54.