Marriage In California

-The San Francisco Chromcle has pointed out some curious features of the civil code relativo to marriage in that State. The law provides three distinot ways in which a couple may marry : First, a contract followed by a cousummation. Second, the old-fashioned inethod by solemnization ; and third, by declaration of intention, signed, acknowled and fíled like any other legal instrument. The first marriage under the third of these methods, was receutly made in Stockton, and has created a very favorable impression as a convenient and inexpensive plan, as it requires no fuss or woiry, no minister, no justice, no anything, but two parties to make a contract, and acknowledge it beforea notary. Tbe law makes this marriage binding, if it is followed by a mutual assumption of marital rightB, as the fifty-fifth section of the code provides : " Marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract, to which the consent of parties capable of inaking it is necessary. Consent alone will not constitute marriage ; it must be followed by a solemnization, orby mutual assumptionof marital rights duties or obliga tions."