Note 1349 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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Illegitimate children are legitimized by the marriage of parents and acknowledgment of the father in Alabama, Code (1887), 530; ibid. (1897), sec. 364; Arizona, Rev. Stat. (1887), 371, 372; Florida, Rev. Stat. (1892), 686; Georgia, Code (1896), II, 254; Kentucky, Stat. (1894), 545; Maryland, Code (1888), II, 813; Mississippi, Ann. Code (1892), 172; Missouri, Rev. Stat. (1899), I, 740; Virginia, Code (1887), 620; West Virginia, Code (1891), 666.
Penalty or prosecution for seduction is suspended by marriage of parents in Arizona, Rev. Stat., as cited; Kentucky, Stat., as cited; Missouri, Rev. Stat. (1899), I, 548; New Mexico, Comp. Laws (1897), 344; Texas, Act of March 25, 1899: Gen. Laws, 66: and Virginia, Code, as cited. Cf. Wright, Report, 27.
Prosecution for seduction is also suspended on marrying the woman in Arkansas; but it is specially provided that if at any time thereafter the accused shall wilfully and without such cause as now constitutes a legal ground of divorce desert and abandon the female, then the prosecution shall be continued and proceed as though no marriage had taken place. In such cases the female may be a witness: Acts (1899), 23, 24.