MARRIAGE.--Legislation concerning the formal requirements and solemnizations of marriage is still within the exclusive authority of the legislatures of the Provinces. As to the impediments which arise from blood and marriage, the law throughout the Dominion of Canada is in agreement with the law of England, which is based upon the 18th chapter of the Book of Leviticus. It is expressly provided by the act, 28 and 29 Vict. c. 64, that every law made or to be made by the legislature of any British possession, "for the purpose of establishing the validity of any marriage or marriages contracted in such possession, shall have and be deemed to have had from the date of the making of such law the same force and effect for the purpose aforesaid within all parts of Her Majesty's dominions as such law may have had or may hereafter have within the possession for which the same was made. Provided that nothing in this law contained shall give any effect or validity to any marriage unless at the time of such marriage both of the parties thereto were, according to the law of England, competent to contract the same." VALIDITY OF FOREIGN DIVORCES.--When the validity of a foreign divorce is considered by the Canadian courts the judges apply the strict rule of refusing to recognize a decree of divorce pronounced by a court within whose jurisdiction the parties had not a bona fide domicile. The courts also hold that a marriage celebrated in Canada between persons domiciled there is in its nature indissoluble except by death or by the act or decree of the Dominion Parliament, or a Canadian court of competent jurisdiction, and that no judgment of a foreign court dissolving such a marriage will be recognized in Canada. This rule invites, and has received, such severe criticism for its injustice that it cannot long be maintained by such tribunals of learning and integrity as the courts of Canada. Suppose a Canadian man and woman domiciled in Toronto should intermarry there, and afterwards acquire a joint domicile of twenty years' duration in New York City. If, after that period, the wife should obtain in the courts of the State of New York a divorce on the grounds of her husband's adultery, and should remarry another man, upon her return to Canada it would be manifestly unjust to treat the divorce and second marriage as null and void. Some of these days the Canadian courts will be called upon to consider the legal effect of a divorce obtained upon statutory grounds in England in a suit between two persons who were married in Canada and at the time of such marriage were domiciled in that country. Perhaps then the rule we have mentioned and criticised will be relaxed. The Island and Colony of Newfoundland, although a British colony in North America, is not yet incorporated as a part of the Dominion of Canada. It has its own governor, legislature and judicial system entirely separate from the Dominion and its own marriage and divorce law.