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application of the principle would enable the parties to get married in a state authorizing marriage by proxy without going there them- selves, both parties being represented by proxies.®^ Ernest G. Lorenzen. New Haven, Conn. attorney is, however, obviously erroneous, and there is no hkelihood that any court would follow it with respect to marriage by proxy. ^ As this article was going through the press, the Judge Advocate General ren- dered an opinion in which he held that soldiers abroad might marry their sweethearts in the United States through interchanging a marriage contract by mail, provided that such marriage does not contravene state statutes, and that this method might prop- erly be facilitated by the military authorities in France.