Marriage and Divorce
Laws of the World
Edited by
HYACINTHE RINGROSE, D. C. L.
Author of “The Inns of Court”
“Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself.”—Jeremy Taylor
THE MUSSON-DRAPER COMPANY
LONDON NEW YORK PARIS
1911
Copyright, 1911, by
HYACINTHE RINGROSE
All rights reserved
PREFACE
The purpose of this volume is to furnish to the lawyer, legislator, sociologist and student a working summary of the marriage and divorce laws of the principal countries of the world.
There are no geographical boundaries to virtue, wisdom and justice, and no country has as yet monopolized all that is best in creation. The mightiest of the nations lacks something which is possessed by the weakest; and there is no branch of comparative jurisprudence of more general consequence than that treating of marriage, which is the keystone of civilization.