Note 523 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 3)

Ter. Laws of Mich., I, 496; see also act of April 12, 1827: ibid., II, 363-66. An act of this last date (ibid., II, 543), for the punishment of crime, exempts persons marrying again after divorce from the pains of bigamy, provided they may do so by the terms of the decree or by those of the law where the divorce was granted. The act of June 28, 1832 (ibid., III, 931, 932), is silent as to remarriage.