[1271] Lislet, op. cit., II, 14.
[1272] Civil Code (1853), 15.
[1273] Ibid.
[1274] Revised Code (1888), 62, 63. For the clause regarding citizenship see Acts (1855), 128. The present powers of justices and parish judges are determined by Acts (1864), 50. For the power of district judges see Wright, Report, 53.
[1275] Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation, Provisional Government of Texas, and the Convention Which Assembled at Washington March 1, 1836 (1838), 137, 138; also in Dallam, Digest of the Laws of Texas (1845), 167.
[1276] Act of June 5, 1837: Laws of the Republic of Texas (1838), 233.
"When persons have intermarried as aforesaid agreeably to the customs of the country and either the husband or wife has died previous to the passage of this law," then such marriages are legal and binding and the issue are legitimized, provided the parties were living together as man and wife "at the said death of either party."—Ibid., 233, 234.
[1277] Laws of the Rep. of Tex., 234; also Dallam, Digest, 167, 168. An act of Feb. 5, 1841, validates marriages previously made by "bond": Laws of Rep. of Tex. (5th Cong.), 176.
[1278] Act of April 13, 1891: Gen. Laws of Tex. (1891), 96; being the same except as to Jewish rabbis, as act of Nov. 1, 1866: Laws (1866), 72, and Revised Civil Stat. (1888), I, 877; Ann. Civ. Stat. of Tex. (1897), I, 1081.
[1279] Code of Md. (1888), I, 975.