Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1914 — Titles and Taxes In Spain. [ARTICLE]

Titles and Taxes In Spain.

In Spain titles of nobility are taxed in the same way as houses or land. Moreover, each separate title is taxed, and for this reason certain members of ancient families in .which a number of titles have accumulated drop some in order to save money. Owing to tha system long prevalent in Spain by which women of noble birth transmit their title not only to their children but to their husbands —so that a plebeian marrying a duchess becomes a duke, Spanish titles rarely become extinct unless the holders deliberately discard them. Some actors get divorces for the advertising and others just because.