A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3Howard, George Elliott
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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3
Howard, George Elliott
Families; Marriage -- History
"Another charge made against our divorce laws is that, not being
uniform, certain states are being overrun with persons of loose
moral character, who seek release from marriage ties. Those who
make this charge seem to overlook the fact that persons of loose
moral character would not be liable to go to the trouble of
leaving their home and state in order to gratify guilty passions.
But those who find the marriage tie too galling for endurance and
yet who wish to be law-abiding citizens presumably, will take
advantage of liberal, enlightened, and humane laws, framed with a
view to increase the happiness of the people rather than made in
such a way as to foster immorality and enforced prostitution."
[740] According to the method of determining the amount of
interstate migration for the purpose of securing divorce
suggested by WILLCOX, "A Study in Vital Statistics," _Pol. Sci.
Quart._, VIII, 90-92.
[741] DIKE, "Statistics of Marriage and Divorce," _Pol. Sci.
Quart._, IV, 608-12.
[742] See Streitwolf _v._ Streitwolf (1900), _Opinions of U. S.
Supreme Court_, No. 13, p. 553, involving a decree of divorce
granted in North Dakota to a resident of New Jersey; Bell _v._
Bell (1900), _ibid._, 551, voiding a similar judgment secured in
Pennsylvania by a resident of New York; and S. _v._ Armington
(1878), 25 _Minn._, 29-39, in which a divorce granted in Utah
to a resident of Minnesota in 1876 was declared void for want
of jurisdiction. Similar decisions, involving the notorious
fraudulent divorces obtained in Utah before the change of the
law in 1878, "have been reached in criminal trials in New York,
Indiana, and Iowa, and in civil suits in Massachusetts, Kansas,
and Tennessee"--the earliest in 1877: WILLCOX, "A Study in Vital
Statistics," _Pol. Sci. Quart._, VIII, 86 n. 1.
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