A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[276] Laws (1814), chap. 5; and Haywood, Manual (1819), 176. The same provision appears in Laws of the State of N. C. (1821), II, 1294.

[277] Acts (1827-28), 20.

[278] Rev. Code (1855), chap. 39, sec. 17, p. 254.

[279] Act of April 7, 1869: Pub. Laws, 323.

[280] All restriction is removed by Laws (1870-71), chap. 193, sec. 46, p. 343; also in Code of N. C. (1883), I, 518.

[281] Compilation of Laws of Ga. (1812), 313.

[282] For instance, see Hotchkiss, Codification (1845), 331; Cobb, Analysis (1846), 294 ff.; Cobb, Digest (1851), 226 ff.

[283] Acts (1872), 14; ibid. (1879), 51; also in Code of Ga. (1896), II, 29, 30. A "verdict of divorce in 1866 will not authorize the guilty party to marry again without proof of a decree of court authorizing to marry."—62 Ga., 408.

[284] Act of Oct. 26, 1799: Scott, Laws of Tenn. (1821), I, 647.

[285] Code of Tenn. (1884), 617; Shannon, Code (1896), 1050.