Marriage Laws and Decisions in the United States

This manual was prepared as a companion to Marriage and the State by Mary E. Richmond and Fred S. Hall. Marriage and the State is an account, based on field studies in 96 cities in 30 states, of the marriage laws in existence in 1929. This volume combines all the statutory regulations of marriage, and all the pertinent court decisions relating to marriage in each jurisdiction of the continental United States at the time. It contains 50 outlines of the law of the several states, the law of the District of Columbia, and the federal law. The statute law includes all legislation in force at the end of the 1927 legislative sessions; the decisional law, all printed cases up to January, 1927.

Geoffrey May was a staff member of the Russell Sage Foundation and served on the faculties of the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago.