Capasso v. Colonna

The decree will be affirmed, and except as presently noted, for the reasons given in the opinion of the chancellor.

The opinion contains the following paragraph:

“No statute, whether relating to marriage or anything else, if in the ordinary general form of words, will be given any effect outside of the local jurisdiction of the government enacting it. To bind even citizens abroad, it must either specifically in terms, or by necessary implication, include them.”

Without passing on the correctness or otherwise of the broad and sweeping proposition just quoted, it is sufficient to say that our…