Reed v. Mosely

Citations

• 76 Miss. 1

Syllabus

<p>Marriage. Slaves. Latos 1865, %>. 83, seo. 3; Const. 1869, sec. 23, art. 12.</p> <p>The act of 1865 (Laws 1865. sec. 3. p. 83), and section 22, article 12, constitution of 1869, providing that all persons theretofore and then living- together and cohabiting’ as man and wife should be taken and held as lawfully married, had the effect of legally marrying such persons, if the relation between them was not unlawful in its inception—as was the case with slave marriages before emancipation—and the parties continued to so live and cohabit after the passage of the act or the adoption of the constitution. Rundle v. Pegram, 49 Miss., 751, and Floydv. Calvert, 53 Miss., 37, distinguished.</p>