This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol4 Torts, Damages, Domestic Relations", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
The sufficiency and legality of a marriage is determined by the law of the place where the marriage ceremony was performed. A few exceptions to this rule will be treated under the head of Conflict of Laws.3
Penal laws of a state relative to marriage do not have extra-territorial effect.
 
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