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Asked by rojo (24179

) April 18th, 2016

Looking at an old marriage license application where one spouse was previously married.
On the application is a blank that says “Number of times previously married”: most of them say “none”. Where my ancestors says “once” followed by the following information: “Div, 11–15-20 C.P. Ct.”
I believe this means Divorced, Nov. 15th, 1920 and the Ct. stands for Court.
Does anyone have any idea what the C. and the P. stand for?
The closest I have come is Com. Pleas. but it doesn’t help clarify.

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Do you mean that you don’t understand “Common Pleas” court?

From Wikipedia:
The Court of Common Pleas, or Common Bench, was a common law court in the English legal system that covered “common pleas”; actions between subject and subject, which did not concern the king.

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Right. In Ohio, we had Common Pleas courts, which acted as the lowest level of the judicial hierarchy.

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Thanks to both of you for clearing this up for me. It looks like records are no longer available on line so if I want to learn more I guess it is a trip north for me. Not any time soon.

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