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and know how to deal with has

been validly contracted in the other country where the parties professed to bind themselves. If the question is answered in the affirmative,

carriage has been had; the relation has been constituted; and those Corb will deal with the rights of the,

under it accor

of

according

C

parkes

to the principles

the municipal.

law which they administer. Indeed if we are to

to see

may

to regard the nature of the contract in this respect as defined by the lex loci, it is difficult

why

not import from Furkey insEngland a marriage of such a nature as that it is capable of being followed by, and subsisting with, another, pongganing being there the essence of the contract.

Now, it is obvious, that the matrimonial law of this country is adapted to the Chrishan marriage, and it is wholly inapplicable to polygamy .

The

The matrimonial law is correspondent

to the

rights and obligations which the contract of marriage haw, by the common understanding of the parties,

created. Thus

may

confugal

treatment.

be onforced by a decree for. titution of conyugal rights.

or

red.

Adultery by either party gives a right

ht to the other of judicial separation, that of the wife gives a right to a divorce; and that of the husband, if coupied with bigamy, is followed by the same penalty. Personal violence, open concubinage -debauchery in face of the wife, her degradation in her home from social equality with the husband, and her dishlacement as the head of his horwehold, are with us matrimonial offences, for they violate the vows of wedlock. t wife the insured may Judicial separation and a permanent support from the husband under the

clamin a

mano