{"newspaper_name": "Mobile register and journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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MARRIAGE ECoETaACT.-Iiha has been decided by Judge Parsons, that in Pennsylvania marriage is a ciyiI contract, and such may be proved by adms- sions and acts of the parties without the necessity of any particHar ceremony In the case before him, it was proved that there had been no ceremony per- formed, hut ihe parties had lived together as man and wie, in the presence of acquainiances This, ii held, according to the law ofPenns, lvania, was sufficient to constitute marriage. and endow the woman with the rights of a wife.-[New Haven Register.

 Our New York law is similar. and there many

 couple living together unsuspicious of the fact that Nsws.