Note 1074 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
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Bishop, op. cit., I, §§ 1394, 1395; following Fonblanque, Equity, 97, note. In Helms v. Franciscus, 12 Bland, 544 ff., it is taken for granted that the equity judges of the commonwealth assumed the jurisdiction in question as naturally coming to them; nothing is said of a statute conferring it.