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Venue--Jurisdiction In Criminal Cases

Michigan Law Review

In a recent case in Oklahoma the defendant was prosecuted for bigamy, under a statute which read as follows: "It shall be unlawful for either party to such divorce to remarry any other person within six months from the degree of divorcement. * * * Any person marrying contrary: to the provisions of this statute shall be deemed guilty of bigamy, and such marriage shall be absolutely void." The defendant remarried in another state and returned to Live in Oklahoma. The court held that it had no jurisdiction. Jennings v. State, 17 Okla. Cr. R. 698.

Divorce Problems In The Conflict Of Laws, Herbert F. Goodrich

Articles

Divorce may be considered as the termination of the legal relationship between husband and wife by an act of the law. With the purely local aspect of legal questions regarding divorce, Conflict of Laws is not concerned. If a husband and wife are married and have their home in one state, legal questions concerning their divorce are local matters only. These will include the grounds for divorce, the particular court in which the action is brought, the procedure to be followed from commencement to termination of the action. In such a case it is only when some question concerning the …

Comentarios A La Ley Del Divorcio Con Disolución Del Vínculo Matrimonial De 29 De Julio De 1918, Isidoro Corzo

Cuban Law

At head of title: Legislación Cubana.

Índice. - Del divorcio con disolución del vinculo. - De la acción de divorcio. - Del nuevo matrimonio. - De la separación de bienes. - Del cuidado de los hijos.- Del procedimiento para el divorcio en general. - Del procedimiento especial para el divorcio por mutuo disenso. - Criterio de transición. Apéndice: De la aplicación de la Ley de Divorcio a los extranjeros. Repertorio Alfabético.

Divorce Laws And The Increase Of Divorce, Evans Holbrook

Articles

Along with the condemnation of the divorce evil has gone a very general disposition to condemn our divorce laws as being responsible for the evil. The committee on resolutions of the Congress on Uniform Divorce Laws in its report to the Congress at its adjourned session in Philadelphia, November 13, 1906, speaks of the "many evils engendered by the lax and unphilosophic system prevailing in many of the states."3 On this phase of the question also our late president gave his views in his special message to Congress on January 30, 1905, in the following words: "There is a wide-spread …

Lovers' Contracts In The Courts: Forsaking The Minimum Decencies, Judith T. Younger

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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