Note 1110 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
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Linn, Charter and Laws, 109, 110. This provision was abrogated by William and Mary, 1693, but re-enacted the same year: ibid., 110, note, 194 (the re-enacted law).
By the Dutch code fornicators, if single, are to marry or pay a heavy fine; O'Callaghan, Ordinances, 495. Under the duke of York the penalty is marriage, fine, or corporal punishment, in the discretion of the court: Duke of Yorke's Book of Laws: in Linn, Charter and Laws, 27. The New Jersey laws of "Carteret's time" (ca. 1675) contain the same provisions: Leaming and Spicer, Grants, 107; and the Pennsylvania statutes authorize the county court to impose "all or anie" of these three penalties: Linn, op. cit., 145, 210; Bioren, Laws, I, 2, c. 3.