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Show The death ol King Victor Emmanuel Em-manuel promises to result in the rec tificatiou of a serious abuse that has existed in Italy so lone solely because of the king's morganatio relations. Under tho Italian law civil marriages only are recognized as valid aud binding, bind-ing, though maniageB by priests ore not prohibited where a civil marriage baa not already been contracted. Tho priest have taken advantage of thin fttinmaloua law to encourftce re ligious ceremonies, without preliminary prelimi-nary civil marriages, and the result baa been that women who thought they were liviug in legitimate relations have been deseitedaud left without legal recourse, and their children bastardized bas-tardized or regarded by law ae simply tho cflpring of concubinage. The confusion and. distress have also extended ex-tended to property rights, as the courts eotild not recogoiza a marriage by. a priest. Now that Victor Eai-mauufcl Eai-mauufcl is cut of the way, aud the rectification rec-tification the evil cannot apply to his crooked marriage relationi, government gov-ernment is about to lay before parliament par-liament & bill regulating the institution institu-tion of marriage. |