DUNCAN, J.
The defendant's motion was erroneously denied upon the ground that the court was without authority to make the requested orders in a case where the marriage was void ab initio. By the early statute of 1791, marriage by a party knowing a former spouse to be alive was made a cause for divorce; and the court was authorized to enter a decree restoring or assigning property to the wife in such a case as in cases of divorce for other causes, without distinction...
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