Pearson v. Pearson

Citations

• 51 Cal. 120

Syllabus

<p>Manumission op a Slave.—The marriage of a master with his female slave amounts to a relinquishment of his right to hold her as a slave and manumits her.</p> <p>Mabriage between Master and Slave.—If one holding a female slave of African descent in Missouri, removed with her to the Territory of Utah, and there married her, the marriage was legal, there being no local law in Utah prohibiting such marriage.</p> <p>Validity op Marriage.—A marriage contracted without this State, which is valid by the law of the place where contracted, is valid in this State if the parties subsequently remove here, even though the marriage would have been invalid by the laws of this State if contracted here.</p>