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The Tennessee Marriage Protection Amendment, also known as Tennessee Amendment 1 of 2006, is a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex unions. The referendum was approved by 81% of voters. It specified that only a marriage between a man and a woman could be legally recognized in the state of Tennessee.
The city settled the case five days before they were due in court, and Ganz won the first public copies of the index to New York City marriage licenses for 1908–1929 on 48 rolls of microfilm. This was the first time that an American genealogist had ever successfully sued for the return of genealogical records to the public.
Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852. New Jersey: Married women are granted separate economy. [11] Indiana: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4]
United States, Tennessee: Married women allowed to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [13] Ireland: Contraception in Ireland was made illegal in 1835 under the 1835 Criminal Law (Amendment) Act. [20] Greece: The modern Greek state and its penal system were created in the 1830s based on Bavarian laws.
Earlier this year, Tennessee lawmakers passed legislation that allows individuals to decline to perform marriage ceremonies, but it does not ban same-sex or interracial marriage.
The general marriage age (lacking authorization for an exception) is 18 years of age in all states except Nebraska, where the general marriage age is 19, and Mississippi, where the general marriage age is 21. [1] The general marriage age is commonly the age of majority, though in Alabama the general marriage age is 18 while the age of majority ...
Woodhull claimed to be the nephew of Caleb Smith Woodhull, mayor of New York City from 1849 to 1851; he was in fact a distant cousin. [26] They were married on November 20, 1853. [27] [28] Their marriage certificate was recorded in Cleveland on November 23, 1853, when Victoria was two months past her 15th birthday. [6] [29]
According to William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, an authoritative commentary on the English common law on which the American legal system is modeled, "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage", [38] referring to the ...