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Show ONE-STATE DIVORCE LAW. Pennsylvania Has Statute Which Is Not Binding in Other. States. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27. In a decision de-cision Just rendered by the Common Pleas court the divorce law enacted in 1003 is declared to be perfectly clear and to permit divorces without personal services upon the respondent when one of tlie parties resides in an outside State and the grounds for the divorce occurred in another State, However, the Judges ordered that the decree should explain that It is purely a "Pennsylvania divorce," not binding In States where the laws conflict therewith. there-with. Because of a story that the new law was passed to enable a prominent Philadelphia Phil-adelphia woman to secure a separation from her English husband, tho court said it might be asserted that the act was special legislation. This, however could not be proved. |