Note 1136 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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Revised Statutes of Maine (1884), 516, 517. This provision has long existed: see Acts and Resolves (1876), chap. 110, sec. 2, pp. 78, 79; Revised Stat. (1871), 485; ibid. (1857), 391. Cf. Wright, Report, 53.