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587, 23 Am. St. Rep. 869; Campbell’s Adin’r v. Gullatt, 43 Ala. 67; Askew v. Dupree, 30 Ga. 173; Hayes v. People, 25 N. Y. 390, 82 Am. Dec. 364. But see Grisham V. State, 2 Yerg. (Tenn.) 589; Norcross v. Norcross, 155 Mass. 425, 29 S. E. 506; Beverlin V. Beverlin, 29 W. Va. 732, 3 S. E. 36; 9 H. L. C. 274. Where a marriage was properly performed by a priest, it was held valid though no license had been obtained; Landry v. Bellanger, 120 La. 962, 45.South, 956, 14 Ann. Cas. 952, 15 L. R. A. (N. S.) 463, with note collecting cases which seem to establish the general rule as stated that the requirement of a license is directory and the marriage is valid without it. In England, Lord Hardwicke’s Act, 1753, nullified all maiwlages (except those of Quakers and Jews) celebrated otherwise than in a church and according to the rites of the church of England, and this continued to be the law up to the passing of the Marriage Act, 1836, by which provisions were made for civil marriages at a register office, and for legalizing all marriages in duly registered dissenting places of worship, if celebrated in the presence of a civil ofl Scial called a registrar of marriages. Marriages were not solemnized by priests until the time of Innocent III. Foreign marriages are regulated in England by the act of 1892. See Lex Loci, as to ' foreign marriages. As to the marriage laws of various countries, see Burge’s Col. Laws by Renton & Phlliimore. Ing tbe parties thereto from marriage with any other parties; Brown v. Odlll, 104 Tenn. 250, 56 S. W. 840, 62 L. R. A. 660, 78 Am. St. Rep. 914; and a contract fpr the resumption of the marriage relation, providing that if the husband shall desert the wife, or fail to support her, she shall Immediately become vested with her dower interest In his realty is not against public policy but in harmony with it; Sommer v. Sommer, 87 App. Div. 434, 84 N. Y. Supp. 444. See Restbaint of Mabbiaoe. As to rights of married women, see Husband; MABKi Ba) Woman. See Wedding; Impediments; In Facie Ecclesue; Burge, Colonial Laws, by Renton & Philllmore, for the laws of various countries.