Note 1064 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
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The expression "all laws" is used advisedly. Though "in some of the American cases the term 'common law' is used, the broad meaning of the term, not its narrow and technical one, is intended."—Bishop, Mar., Div., and Sep., I, § 119; citing C. v. Knowlton, 2 Mass. Rep., 530, 534: Sackett v. Sackett, 8 Pickering, Reports, 309, 316. Cf. Jefferson, Works, VI, 65; VIII, 374, 379; IX, 282.