*480.* _Marriage, Impediments, Recording._—Legal marriage may be contracted only between unmarried persons not related within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity, of lawful age and sufficient mental and physical capacity. Statutes vary greatly. In some States affinity is not considered a legal objection and first cousins may marry; in others, both are prohibited and other limitations of relationship, race, and color are fixed, and registration of the clergymen and licenses to wed are required. Also, the clergyman must report the marriage promptly to the proper office. Fines, penalties, and imprisonment are usually provided for violating the law. Informal marriages may or may not be voidable or void.(840) *481.* _Charivari, Wedding Pranks._—Charivari, assaults, and disorderly conduct are unlawful at all times, and can not be justified by custom.(841) A newly wedded man who was serenaded (charivaried) by his neighbors by firing guns, blowing horns, beating pans, rattling horse-fiddles, etc., after ordering the rioters off fired into the crowd and wounded one of them. On trial for assault with intent to kill, the groom was acquitted. Shooting might not be justifiable in cases where less potent agencies, such as a horsewhip or dogs, are sufficient, or where the immediate protection of person or property does not call for it. The law should be invoked when no exigency for force exists.(842) *482.* _Infallibility of Courts._—When a question of law at issue in a case is duly presented to a supreme court which is the court of last resort, its decision thereon becomes “the law of the case” and is thereafter binding upon the court itself and all the courts inferior to it; and no matter how often that identical case may come before the court on subsequent appeals, the questions already decided therein will not be reconsidered. It is interesting to compare this principle of our courts with Papal infallibility.(843) Courts do not always adhere to the rule.(844) *483.* _Money Stolen, Bailed or Loaned, Insolvency, Gifts._—Property stolen by A. or left with him as bailee to be returned in specie, can not be given away by him for charity. Also, when a man is insolvent he has no right to give away any of his property.(845) That has been the rule of law since Coke laid down the maxim: “A man must be just before he is generous.” One is insolvent when his debts exceed the value of his unexempt property.(846) When an insolvent debtor makes a gift, a creditor may sue and recover from the donee; or in a proper case the creditor may force the debtor into bankruptcy to recover the gift.(847) The want of knowledge or good faith of the donee is immaterial and no defense to an action to recover the property.(848) INDEX The References Are To The Sections. A Abandoned cemetery, 449; property reverts, 295. Accepting a draft, officer, 162. Access to cemetery, right of, 442. Account, officers must, 297.