3. Sentence of one of the spouses to life imprisonment.
4. Cruel and ill-human treatment.
Foreign Marriages.—The courts of Brazil recognize as valid a marriage between two foreigners concluded in a foreign land, provided that such marriage is monogamous, is not between ascendants or descendants, or between persons related collaterally in the second degree, and if such marriage was regularly concluded according to the law of the country of its celebration.
A marriage abroad of a citizen of the Republic of Brazil must conform not only to the law of the place of its celebration, but must also be in strict accordance with the law of Brazil.
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The Republic of Cuba.
A nation may in a day overthrow a dynasty which has ruled for centuries, it may in a few years completely revolutionize its system of government and methods of trading, but its ancient code of marriage will live on unchanged for ages.
It is a noteworthy fact that the law of Rome concerning marriage survived the Roman Empire by a thousand years, and even to-day it is the foundation of the law on that subject in all of the Continental countries of Europe and of the entire Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the United States of America and Canada.