115 W. Va. 229 - Titus v. Titus’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““The policy of the enactments in question is solely with the legislature. It is not incumbent on us to defend that policy. It is advocated, however, by teachers of the highest standing. Professor Goodrich of Iowa State University says: ‘Since annulment of a marriage differs so fundamentally from divorce in that while the latter severs the matrimonial bonds, the former declares they never existed, jurisdiction to render the nullity decree is not to be found where the parties at the time it is sought, may be domiciled. Only the law by which the marriage came into being has power to annul it.’ 32 Harvard Law Review, 806, 814. Professor Beale of the Harvard Law School says: ‘Theoretically the law that created the marriage should alone have power to declare effectively and in rem, that it never existed.’ 33 Harvard Law Review, 1, 12. The policy of the enactments is also supported by the ‘universal rule’ of courts in other controversies between non-residents, when the cause of action arose within the territory of the jurisdiction invoked. 7 R. C. L., subject Courts, sec. 66; Story on Conflict of Laws, sec. 542.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 122 W. Va. 223 - Bell v. Bell