By  entering  into  the  marriage  contract  there,  they  subjected  themselves  to  have  the
validity  of  it  determined  by  the  laws  of  that  country.  So  long  as  they  resided  there,
each  party  might  sue  the  other  and  bring  the  case  before  that  jurisdiction,  to  be
determined  by  the  law  of  France.  And  this  cause  seems  to  have  [409]  been  begun
very  properly  in  France  against  Miss  Jones,  while  she  was  resident  in  France,  and
subject  to  that  forum,  in  order  to  have  it  tried  by  its  proper  forum.  For  it  appears
that  Mrs.  Scrimshire,  the  mother  of  the  minor,  protested  of  the  nullity  of  the  marriage,
by  a  protest,  in  which  she  gives  a  large  account  of  the  transaction,  on  the  3d  March,
1744 ;  and  this  protest  was  personally  notified  to  Miss  Jones  in  France.
It  appears  further  that  Mrs.  Scrimshire,  having  had  notice  that  some  aflSdavits  and
a  certificate  of  marriage  were  enrolled  in  an  office  in  France  on  the  13th  March,  1744,
petitioned  the  seneschal,  setting  forth  the  protest  and  clandestine  marriage,  and  the
enrolment  of  the  affidavits,  acts,  and  certificate ;  and  prayed  to  have  the  acts,  &c.
communicated  to  her,  in  order  that  she  might  draw  such  conclusions  from  them  as
might  be  lawful,  in  the  proceedings  to  be  had  in  regard  to  her  son ;  and  that  the  acta
might  be  brought  to  be  inspected  by  the  judge  for  that  purpose ;  and  declared  her
intention  to  prosecute  the  parties  for  the  raptus  seductionis,  as  it  is  termed  in  the
laws  of  France.  On  the  14th  March  this  was  likewise  notified  personally  to  Miss
Jones,  and  in  her  answer  she  admits  that  she  bad  such  notice.
