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824 HARVARD LAW REVIEW thoroughly discussed of all the uniform acts. It will be a long time before all legislatures get around to the Annulment and Divorce Act. Providing for annulment jurisdiction where the complaining party lives has great advantages over compelling him to go to the place where the marriage was created. It is expedient, convenient, certain. Why would not the best way be to drop the doctrine of nulUty, with its relation back and bastardizing of innocent children and otherwise ignoring the existence of a fact, and include the common causes of annulment under divorce? The state where the party lives can then say that the marriage is at an end. While the law requiring recognition of such a decree is unfortunately some- what tangled, it probably is not as bad at its worst as what we may expect in the recognition of nullity decrees. Herbert F. Goodrich. State University or Iowa.