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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3

Note 1451 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)

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It is provided by the Rev. Code of Del. (1874), chap. 75, sec. 1, "that a divorce may be granted in case the parties were, when married, below the ages specified (eighteen and sixteen), and did not voluntarily ratify the marriage after arriving at those ages;" and this is retained in Rev. Stat. (1893), 596. Cf. Wright, Report, 30.

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