Note 1338 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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In Texas they are prohibited and punished "when the female is abducted or forced into marriage;" but they are voidable when the license has been fraudulently obtained: Wright, Report, 43; Rev. Civil Stat. of Tex. (1888), I, 877, note; see Robertson v. Cole, 12 Texas, 356. Cf. Wilson, Supp. to Criminal Statutes (1900), 242, 243.