AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The taxpayer and his wife were married in 1903 in the Province of Alsace-Lorraine, then a part of the German Empire. Immediately prior to the marriage they entered into an antenuptial agreement containing the following provisions:
"Property acquired during the period of the marriage shall be conclusively considered as jointly held.
"There remains, therefore, to each spouse as his or her respective contributed fortune...
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