...essential, and is subject to avoidance for material and substantive fraud in its procurement. Ib. 1 1. A marriage procured without a contract can never be...view of the law in the former, as in the latter case. Ib. 102. 12. A woman, to be marriageable, must at the time be able to bear children to her husband,...

...A lien acquired by attachment suffices. Scales v. Scott. 13 Cal. 78. 42. There is no more reasoning for sanctioning a marriage procured by fraud than one procured by force and violence. Baker v. Baker, 13 Cal. 102. 43. If an instrument be void for actual fraud ab initio, it is void for...

...contract. The fraud blots ont of existence whatever semblance of a contract there might have been. There is no more reason for sanctioning a marriage...of the law, in the former as in the latter case." Reeve's Domestic Relations, 206; see 2 Kent's Com. 76. The woman is not estopped in this case, by the...

...obtained. The truth is, that a contract which is obtained by fraud, is, in poiut of law, no contract. The fraud blots out of existence whatever semblance of a contract there might have becn. A marriage procured without a contract can never be deemed valid. There is no more reason for...

...obtained. The truth is, that a contract which is obtained by fraud is, in point of law, no contract. The fraud blots out of existence whatever semblance...marriage procured by fraud than one procured by force or violence. The consent is as totally wanting, in view of the law, in the former as in the latter...

...procured. The truth is, that a contract which is obtained by fraud, is, in- point of law, no contract. The fraud blots out of existence whatever semblance...contract, can never be deemed valid. There is no more renson for sanctioning a marriage procured by fraud than one procured by force and violence. The consent...