Note 400 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)

Act of 1815: Laws of the Commonwealth (1822), VI, 288; Pepper and Lewis, Digest (1896), I, 1634.

"While a well-founded belief in the death of her first husband will relieve a woman marrying a second time from the pains of adultery, it cannot validate her second marriage, if, in fact, her first husband was living when it was solemnized."—Thomas v. Thomas, 124 Pa., 646; s. c., 23 W. N. C., 410 (1889). Cf. Pepper and Lewis, Digest, I, 1634, ed. note.