A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[1400] Laws of the State of N. J. (1800), 158, 159.

[1401] Pub. Laws (1882), 203; retained in Gen. Stat. of N. J. (1896), II, 2005. See for earlier acts amended Pub. Laws (1877), 168.

[1402] A justice of the peace may solemnize a marriage out of the county for which he is commissioned: Pearson v. Howey, 6 Halsted, N. J. Reports, 12.

[1403] Act of June 13, 1890: Pub. Laws (1890), 439; Gen. Stat. (1896), II, 2006.

[1404] Pub. Laws (1889), 139; Rev. Stat. (1896), II, 2005.

[1405] Laws (1885), No. 115, sec. 1.

[1406] Rodebaugh v. Sanks (1833), 2 Watts, 9; Fulkerson v. Day (1881), 15 Phila. Reports, 638. The provision of 1701 requiring the justice to subscribe the publication (or certificate) is not obsolete: Helffenstein v. Thomas (1835), 5 Rawle, Reports, 209.

[1407] Above, chap. xii, sec. iii.

[1408] Act of April 10: Laws of the Gen. Assembly (1849), 549; retained in Pepper and Lewis, Digest (1896), II, 2879.

[1409] Act of Jan. 29, 1790: Laws of the State of Del. (1797), II, 972, 973.