Unrecorded Divorce Decrees
News comes from New York that the examination of the records of the expired Court of Common Pleas shows that hundreds of cases in which the judges gave decisions allowing decrees of separation of persons in the marital relation had never been submitted to the court by counsel for the successful parties, and numbers of these divorces have not been entered upon the records. In many cases these persons have married again, believing that the judicial pronouncement was all that was required, but prominent lawyers say that the second marriage is absolutely illegal and void.