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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1350, 1 September 1883, Page 4

Everyone (says a Home journal) has a right to his own opinion on the question of the deceased wife’s sister; but when a politician puts his viewa on legal grounds, he should be sure that his grounds are legal. Mr Bright, in a letter recently published, says ; *' A men may have a legal wife in the Colonies, and another legal wife in England. He may bring hie Canadian legal wife to England, where, when she touches our shores, she is not a legal wife, and where her children born here are not legitimate. If you can justify this I will not argue with you." The statement may or may not be justified on the ground that we are not bound to alter our laws to suit the taste of those who visit us, but it may safely be traversed. If a Canadian, married to a deceased wife’s sister in Canada, were to come to England, hie wife would not cease to be hi. legal wife, and his children born here would be legitimate. In fact, the legality of a man’s marriage does not depend on the place where he happens to be, or the legitimacy of his children on the place where are born. It depends on his domicile at the time of his marriage. A man is not married and unmarried as he crosses a frontier.