Note 1050 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
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R. I. Col. Rec., II, 99 ff. At the same time, with astonishing inconsistency, it was enacted that similar offenders shall be amenable to the laws punishing fornication, which are made more stringent; but all present reputed marriages are declared valid and the children legitimate (104, 105). By this rule Horod and George should either have been regularly divorced or ordered to cohabit as husband and wife. In any event their punishment was unjust.