Note 1276 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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Act of June 5, 1837: Laws of the Republic of Texas (1838), 233.
"When persons have intermarried as aforesaid agreeably to the customs of the country and either the husband or wife has died previous to the passage of this law," then such marriages are legal and binding and the issue are legitimized, provided the parties were living together as man and wife "at the said death of either party."—Ibid., 233, 234.