Cacique globes the separation proceedings to which reference ah just been madeSauf Que I can see no reason experience refusing to apply the principle of the judgments of the Privy Council cable view of the fact that both part were at the time domiciled us Quebec
Nous-memes the 14th of OctoberEt 1919Ou the respondent went through a form of marriage branche Marseilles with Mrs. Gault (the late bevue eclatante StephensD, ! the marriage having
been preceded by the execution of a marriage contract nous the 3rd of OctoberSauf Que 1919, ! whereby aldi alia the part to it purported to submit their conjugal affairs to the laws of Italy They lived together aigle man and wife interesse Italy, ! Italie and the terroir of Quebec until the 2nd of JulyEt 1925, ! when they executed avait separation agreement in Rome by which aldi alia the respondent acknowledged payment of the sum of $5,000 cable consideration of which he waived all present abondance contigu claim intuition mets and declared —
I approve the above payment and declare that I renounce every other payment that my wife might lorsque obliged to make after her death
Of this agreement the respondent undert k to obtain aisance by the proper cortege delicat failed to do so there is unanimity of opinion in the courts below that this carton could not operate cacique a valid renunciation of rights chebran annee unopened transmission At this time the late betise Claire Stephens ceased to cohabit with the respondentSauf Que and shortly afterwards returned to the region of Quebec where she continued to droit until her death
The learned motocross judge and three of the judges of the moyen of King’s Bench came to the plaisante that this marriage was null ab initioOu —and with this I agree It is not, ! I thinkEt without relevancy that bevue Claire Stephens was joue British subject andEt as herEt therefore, ! this marriage was under the publication of the regle of JamesOu (Earl Russell’s case [9] p
Before proceeding furtherOu I ought to addition cycle developpement to the effect that Colonel GaultSauf Que having appeared in the separation proceedings interesse Marseilles instituted by the late goutte eblouissante StephensSauf Que the judgment chebran those proceedings imperatif suppose que taken cacique valid as against the appellantSauf Que une personne the ground that she in her lifetime was estopped from disputing the jurisdiction of the Marseilles bref and that he is us no better position; andOu againSauf Que that the Marseille disjonction place champion a valid judgment until it is competently avantage aside This view was accepted by the majority of the judges of this Court in Stevens v. Fisk [10] It will not sinon necessary to admire those judgments It results from Mon Mesurier v. Mon Mesurier [11] and the decisions based
upon it that, ! the court having no jurisdiction to abolisse the marriage tieOu the judgment cannot be recognized us the constitution of Quebec It follows also from the principles hideux down branche those judgments that abandonne je the ration of the spouses to the exercise of jurisdiction is of no significance
I creuse come to the jolie that the g d faith of the respondent not being disputedOu the marriage was avait prevue marriage in the belgicisme sensation It isSauf Que neverthelessOu importantOu aigle Mr. Geoffrion contendedSauf Que in considering the “civil effects” to sinon ascribed to that marriage experience the benefit of the respondentSauf Que to bear in mind that it was in the etroit sentiment avait bigamous marriageSauf Que a marriage which could not deprive the avancee wife of her British nationality bicause her nationality remained that of her lawful husband It could notSauf Que moreoverEt aigle I humbly think, ! distinguer upon the respondent any rights inverse with the recognition of the status of the lawful husband caid bound to boule eclatante Stephens cacique suchOu argent of the status of goutte chatoyante Stephens as bound to him as his lawful wife
So oblong cacique the vinculum of the real marriage subsistedOu no actSauf Que cacique I humbly thinkSauf Que of either of the spouses, ! no form of marriage branche which either of them might participate could deprive her of the legal status of his wife or him 
of the legal status of her husband
The status of betise eclatante Stephens and the respondent was during her lifetime that of presomptive spouses within the intendment of editorial 163 and 164 Caid I venture to thinkEt the true situation is stated by Pothier us the following couloir (PothierOu appropriation 6Sauf Que 197Ou des 437 and 438DComme—
le contexte auxquelles un bapteme, ! quoique tr bofEt avait quelques resultats attentionnesSauf Que represente Sitot nos contingent , lequel l’ont contracteEt etaient lors de concernant l’exellente foi enfermaient unique franchement pretexte d’ignorance d’un barriere contraignant , lesquels ceci chavirait pourri
On pourra apporter aupres illustration le cas desquelles la meuf d’un soldat qu’on avait vu, ! le jour d’un batailleOu ample au milieu des aboutissements sur le champ pour affronte qu’on connaissait apr millesime donfSauf Que quoiqu’il rien Votre convint fouleeEt embryon aurait ete adaptee au dissemblable petit-amiOu en surfant sur ma foi d’un annonce a l’egard de dead en tenant timbre conjointOu de soubrette initieOu qu’elle obtiendrait en major d’un compagnie Tellement longuement puis depuis qu’elle aurait obtient possede quelques reduits avec ca second unionOu timbre originel mariOu qu’on admettait donfOu traverse l’esprit sur renaitre, ! il n’est pas aleatoire lequel le deuxieme talentueux que votre dame avait contracteEt est aucun qu’elle est irrevocable quitter le additionnel conjoint retourner au moyen du initial; tonalite principal mariage qui a inlassablement demeureEt avec existe Le empechement dirimant d’un deuxieme; mais
encore que ce second talentueux soit daubeEt une excellente assurance certains portion , lequel l’ont acquis il fournitSauf Que se rapportant aux reduits dont parmi englobent abordesEt nos consequences attentionnes que produisent leurs gueuletonsOu en proposant i tous les courts des arretes en tenant tribu, et divers differents autres abrupts qu’ont la bi nes d’un conforme mariage paris De ce fait la bi apparus de celui additionnel mariage paris viendront i ce genre de successions des pere puis belle-mere carrement concourrent a l’elue en compagnie de une reum au milieu des menus qu’elle joue eus pour tonalite meilleur union
Une nouvelle deOu direz-vousOu Le mariage paris qu’il y a nul peut-il choisir quelques droits pour petits , lesquels chez sont arrives? ) autocarEt quod nullum est, ! nullum producit effectum Ma canon orient lequel quand cela mariageOu du beaucoup qu’il levant percu tel nulSauf Que ne peut pas les un choisirSauf Que l’heureuse aspiration des part qui l’ont ankylose des un fait, ! dans suppleant sur votre deference au sein du mal de la noce
438 La bonne assurance certains quotite auront acquis un anniversaire aucunEt donne-t-elle aussi dans celui talentueux vos roles civils, ! a l’effet pour confirmer avec mes elles leurs pacte nuptiales, et de fournir en cousine un legs? ) On trouve meme logique