Note 1268 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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It is contained in Lislet, op. cit., II, 3-13; also (in part) in the Digest of the Civil Laws now in force in the Territory of Orleans, 24 ff.; with the changes to date of publication in Code civil de l'état de la Louisiane (1825), 80 ff.; in the reprint of the last-named compilation in Civil Code of La. (1853). Compare the provisions of the present law in Voorhies and Saunders, Revised Civil Code (1888), 60-68. See also The Laws of Las Siete Partidas, which are still in force in the State of Louisiana, translated from the Spanish (1820), I, 451-64.