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In the national banking system of the United States any of certain cities in which the national banks are required U S Rev Stat sec 5191 to keep a larger reserve 25 per cent than the minimum 15 per cent required of all other banks The banks in certain of the reserve cities specifically called central reserve cities are required to keep their reserve on hand in cash banks in other reserve cities may keep half of their reserve as deposits in these banks U S Rev Stat sec 5195...

Marriage

Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...

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Rev Stat - Law Dictionary Search Results

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