Essay On Divorce And Divorce Legislation, With Special Reference to the United States
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Of course the laws make provision for the support of wives and children in such cases, but in some States, as New York, Ohio, and North Carolina, alimony can also be allowed to a wife without a legal separation. The laws of the last-named State authorize the courts to decree divorce or separation from bed and board, or alimony if no more be demanded, whenever any just cause of divorce exists, thus constituting a third grade of release from married society as one de facto, with- out bringing it ...into the forms of jural separation.* We proceed now to give a sketch of the leading provisions of legislation in this country with re- gard to divorce in general, beginning with those States which have kept closest to the English * See Bishop, Book V., Chap. 30 and 31. 188 DWOECE AND DITOECE LAWS usage. Here South Carolina may stand at the head, a State in which no case of divorce ever came before the courts, and no divorce was ever granted by the legislature, and which, having had with its old established church no ecclesiastical courts, never granted separation from bed and board.
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