Colorado Decisions: Every Opinion of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of Colorado ... Annotated, Volume 1Mills Publishing Company, 1900 |
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Page 504 - The expenses of the family and the education of the children are chargeable upon the property of both husband and wife, or either of them, and in relation thereto they may be sued jointly or separately.
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| Title | Colorado Decisions: Every Opinion of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of Colorado ... Annotated, Volume 1 |
| Author | Colorado. Supreme Court |
| Editor | Jared Warner Mills |
| Contributor | Colorado. Court of Appeals |
| Edition | annotated |
| Publisher | Mills Publishing Company, 1900 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2008 |
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