Adams v. Palmer
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Beported from PTisi Prius, Cutting, J., presiding. These were all actions of dower, depending on the same facts. The defendants denied the marriage, and alleged a release of dower by the demandant. The facts bearing upon, the question of marriage are stated in- the opinion. The demandants claimed to avoid the release, because, at the time of its execution, she.was under the ago of twenty-one years.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Appleton, C. J.
On the 31st July, 1846, by an Act of the Legislature of this State, Franklin Adams was divorced from Mary Adams, then his wife. On the 18th Aug., 1846, he was married to the demandant. The validity of this marriage depends on the constitutional authority of the Legislature to grant a divorce.
(1.) The power of the British Parliament to grant divorces is unquestioned. The Legislature of this, and of most other States of the Union, have granted divorces in numerous instances, — and, unless there are found express constitutional prohibitions,…
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