Harral v. Harral
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from * decree of the chancellor, whose opinion is reported in Ha; rail v. Wallis, 10 Stew. JOq. 43$. Frederick F. Harral was born in Connecticut in 1842. He graduated at Yale College in 1863, and at the College of Physician and Surgeons, in New York city, ha 1868. Ho wáí? nrar•ried on the 20th of February, 1877, before the deputy mayar, in the city of Paris, to Clarice Mai’ie Le Gars, a French wonian.
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On appeal from * decree of the chancellor, whose opinion is reported in Ha; rail v. Wallis, 10 Stew. JOq. 43$. Frederick F. Harral was born in Connecticut in 1842. He graduated at Yale College in 1863, and at the College of Physician and Surgeons, in New York city, ha 1868. Ho wáí? nrar•ried on the 20th of February, 1877, before the deputy mayar, in the city of Paris, to Clarice Mai’ie Le Gars, a French wonian. In May, 1878, he returned to this country, and died at .Kiri- • bride’s hospital for the insane, in Philadelphia, July 5th, 1881. On the 9th of July, 1869, and before his departure for…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, J.
The law of France in relation to the rights of husband and wife in the property of either spouse is established by the Code Napoleon. Before the French Revolution, the northern provinces of France were under the customary'law, and the community of property governed the nuptial contract") the southern-provinces the'Roman law prevailed, and the contract was governed by the dotal system. The Code Napoleon left the parties to elect the laiv by which the marriage should be governed; and if no election was made, the community system was to prevail.…
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