—the Court held that a sister State had to give full faith and credit to a divorce granted, on the basis of constructive service, by the matrimonial domicile to a deserted husband.

—the forum of the first decree was that of the matrimonial domicil, whereas in this the court was that of a domicil afterwards acquired.

Under this view, "[t] he rule as to the notice necessary to give full effect to a decree of divorce is different from that which is required in suits in personam."

—a divorce was granted, on the ground of desertion, to a husband in Kentucky against a wife who had established herself in New York.

It has defined the effect thereof by enacting that "the said records and judicial proceedings so authenticated, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law and usage in the Courts of the State from which they may be taken."

—a divorce obtained by a husband in Kentucky, which had been the matrimonial domicil, though the wife had been absent from the state for several months, and apparently had attempted to acquire a new domicil in New York.

—held that a decree of divorce granted by a state in which one spouse was domiciled and which had personal jurisdiction over the other was as conclusive in other states as it was in the state where it was obtained.

The term "divorce" in ordinary parlance refers to an alteration or severance or dissolution of the marital relationship or tie by a court decree.

—as essential in order to give the court jurisdiction which will entitle the divorce decree to extraterritorial effect, at least when the defendant has neither been personally served nor entered an appearance.'

—having jurisdiction over the husband may, in virtue of the duty of the wife to be at the matrimonial domicile, disregard an unjustifiable absence therefrom, and treat the wife as having her domicile in the State of the matrimonial domicile for the purpose of the dissolution of the marriage, and, as a result, have power to render a judgment dissolving 22 (338) the marriage …