(After stating the case as-above.) Xo actual .marriage was shown, nor was it shown or offered to be shown, what would constitute a valid marriage by the laws of Georgia, where the marriage was alleged to have been celebrated. But in all Christian States, especially in the States of the American Union, which, although in some respects foreign to each other, have a common, origin, and in other respects, a constitutional community of rights and interests, it is presumed that the .common law j>revails, and that the same proofs which are sufficient to establish the fact of marriage in one State, will be likewise sufficient to establish the same fact in another State. Brown v. Pratt, 3 Jones, Eq., 202; Griffin v. Carter, 5 Ire. Eq., 413.
■ By the common law it is held to be a general rule, of universal application in civil causes, except in actions for criminal conversation, that reputation, cohabitation, the .declarations and conduct of the parties, are competent evidence of marriage between them. Archer v. Haithcock, 6 Jones, 421; Weaver v. Cryer, 1 Dev. 837; Wharton Ev., §§ 84, 1297; 1 Starkie, Ev., 297, 300; 2 Greenl., Ev., 762; 1 Doug., 170; 4 T. R., 458.
As such evidence would have been competent to establish marriage in this State by the common law, by the same law it must be held to be competent to establish, that the parties were legally married according to the laws of Georgia. There was not only sufficient, but plenary evidence of the marriage.
No error. Affirmed'.