1. In what respects does a contract of marriage differ from all other contracts? 2. The law of what place determines the validity of the marriage? Page 217. 1. What was the age of consent, originally under the common law, in the case of men? In the case of women? 2. What effect has the marriage of an infant under the age of consent? 3. How and when may such a marriage be ratified or disaffirmed? 4. Who has the right to disaffirm such marriage? Page 218. 1. Is the consent of parents necessary to enable a minor to marry? 2. What is the effect of disregarding a statutory requirement for such consent? 3. How and when may such a marriage be ratified or disaffirmed? Pages 219-221. 1. What effect will the mental incapacity of one of the parties to a marriage have on such marriage? 2. What degree of mental incapacity is necessary to invalidate the marriage? Page 222. 1. What is meant by physical incapacity? 2. What effect does the physical incapacity of one of the parties to a marriage have on such marriage? 3. To have such effect, when must it have existed? 4. Will the drunkenness of one of the parties invalidate the marriage? Page 223. 1. What kind of fraud will render a marriage void or voidable? Page 224. 1. What effect will the pregnancy of the wife at the time of marriage, not by her husband have on the marriage? 2. Will a marriage entered into under duress be valid? 3. What degree of duress is necessary to invalidate a marriage? 4. What is the effect of a bigamous marriage? 5. In the case of marriage of a party having a former wife or husband living, what presumption will the law make as to a divorce having been obtained from the former marriage? 1. What is incest? Pages 225-228. 2. Within what degrees of relationship are marriages incestuous, at common law? 3. In such computations of relationship, how are bastards and relatives by half blood reckoned? Pages 229-235. 1. What is a common law marriage? 2. What are the requisites for the validity of such a marriage? 3. What is the distinction between present and future contracts for a common law marriage? 4. What proof of common law marriage is necessary? 5. What is the presumption of law, where illicit sexual intercourse is proved to have existed, as to the continuance of the illegality of such relation? Page 236. 1. What is the law as to Indian marriages? 2. What kind of divorces were there at common law? 3. What extra-territorial force have divorces? Page 238. 1. What are the principal causes for divorce in this country? 2. What are the causes in your own state? Page 239. 1. Is non-support a ground for divorce? 2. What is alimony? Page 240. 1. When is alimony awarded? Vol. IV.-20. Pages 241-242. 1. What effect do laws prohibiting re-marriage have? CHAPTER III. Page 243. 1. What rights had husband at common law over the real and personal property of his wife? Page 244. 1. Give a synopsis of the decision in Tritts vs. Colwell's Admr.? Page 245. 1. To what extent was husband liable for ante-nuptial debts of his wife at common law? 2. What effect on such liability had the death of the wife? 3. To what extent was a husband liable for the torts of his wife? To what extent was the wife herself liable? Page 246. 1. Was a wife liable for husband's debts? 2. What is an estate by curtesy? 3. When is a husband entitled to such an estate? 4. In what property of the wife does he take such estate? 5. Can a husband's right to curtesy be defeated? If so, how? Page 247. 1. Is an estate by curtesy a vested right? 2. How will the laches of husband affect an estate by curtesy? |