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Show International Marriage Law. - The governments of the world, says the London Queen, need to take up the question, and should - nay, must - ordain that a code of international marriage law be established. This can be done, and we say sooner or later it must be; and whatever religious restrictions or sacramental ideas may continue to environ matrimony, marriage, as a legal contract, must be made as honorable and binding all over Europe as any other civil contract between competent persons, and in accordance with legal provisions. |