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Last week a Paris court declared null and void the marriage of Count Jacques Bouly de Lesdain, explorer-journalist, and Mabel Bailey of Chicago. According to French law, a Frenchman marrying abroad must have the ceremony performed either by a French diplomatic agent, or in the custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden...
...spite of French law and Mongolian folklore, Mabel Bailey (the Countess de Lesdain) maintained that the wedding ceremony was carried through in perfect good faith by both parties. Therefore the court declared marriage was "putative." It is null in law but valid in equity. Daughter Pauline is legitimate...
...recalled this morning the null happiest days of my life...
...trickled into the attention of the New York Appellate Court, which declared that there was no doubt of his authorization by the Holy Russian Synod. Accordingly, the court reinstated him and declared that the claims of bellowing Bishop Adam, Plaintiff Platon, and all other Russian-American archbishops, were null, void. Said Kedrovsky's lawyer...
...President of the Woman's world null I would like to correct the impression which you have given (in the issue of Apr. 27, Page 5), that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick was the originator of the Woman's World Fair...