Note 289 — Chapter XI · HISTORY OF SEPARATION AND DIVORCE UNDER ENGLISH AND ECCLESIASTICAL LAW (continued 2)
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Jeaffreson, op. cit., II, 258-66. These marriages were called "Altona marriages" (from Altona in Denmark, where they were sometimes solemnized), and are the counterpart of the "Gretna marriages," except that the latter were valid and the former were not: ibid., II, 259, 260. The case of Brook v. Brook (House of Lords, March, 1861) grew out of a marriage celebrated near Altona, June, 1850: Tracts Issued by the Mar. Law Defence Union, II, 313 ff.