Chapter XLVIII.

§1. What is meant by the age of consent? At what periods of life is it

fixed? At what in this state?

§2. What three requisites to a lawful marriage are next mentioned?

§3. May a person remarry who has a wife or husband living? What is the

crime called? What cases are excepted?

§4. Are the marriages in these excepted cases binding? What is the

common law on the subject?

§5. How, and by whom are marriages solemnized? What regulations exist in

some states? Is a license or a notice required in this state?

§6. By common law, what right to the personal property does the husband

acquire by marriage?

§7. Does he acquire an absolute right also to her real estate? How is

his right limited?

§8. How has this common law rule been changed? Can you tell what the law

is in this state?

§9. By common law, what liability does a husband incur by marriage? What

is coverture? Is this now the law in all the states? Is it in this

state?

§10. How far is a husband bound for the maintenance of his wife?

§11. May they be witnesses for each other?

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