Chapter 106

NOTES OF DECISIONS

Regulation of marriage is exclusively within province of state’s legislative power. Li v. State of Oregon, 338 Or 376, 110 P3d 91 (2005)

106.010

NOTES OF DECISIONS

Definition of marriage as contract “entered into” by males and females restricts marriage to contract between male and female. Li v. State of Oregon, 338 Or 376, 110 P3d 91 (2005)

LAW REVIEW CITATIONS: 10 WLJ 120 (1973); 36 WLR 503 (2000); 84 OLR 861 (2005)

106.020

NOTES OF DECISIONS

Where appointment of petitioner as personal representative of decedent’s estate was challenged on ground that decedent was still married at time he married petitioner, validity of parties’ marriage was upheld where record did not show that first marriage was validly contracted. Davis v. Davis, 55 Or App 982, 640 P2d 692 (1982)