Note 48 — Chapter I · Marriage Laws and Customs.
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Pollock and Maitland, in their History of English Law, say that this erroneous decision may have pleased the Lords, but the opposite holding will be followed by historians of the middles ages. (Vol. II., p. 372.) And James Bryce, in his “Marriage and Divorce,” III. Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, says that this “seems to have been an erroneous” decision. (Vol. III., p. 815.)