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From: "Mills" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Re: Marriage Bonds
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:59:20 -0500
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Ellen Cleary wrote:
> I live in the New Orleans area, so I see these marriage bonds all the
time.
> I was told that the bonds went to the bride if the marriage was proven
> illegitimate, but I have never seen any written evidence of that.
>
> Does anyone know if that was, indeed, the case?

Ellen, the legal provisions surrounding the issuance, payment, and
collection of bonds are set forth in detail in state statutes. The only way
to get an accurate answer for any given place and time would be to visit a
law library and check the statutes or cumulative "code" for that state and
that time period. And, of course, in your case you will be dealing with
Louisiana's Civil Code rather than the common law statutes that prevail in
other states.

Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
Editor, *National Genealogical Society Quarterly*
PO Box 861406, University of Alabama Station
Tuscaloosa, AL 35486

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