Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1901 — German Law. [ARTICLE]

German Law.

German law holds a man to his bargain when he has agreed to give up his name’ A young count, Finck von Finckensteln, In order to marry a girl of whom his family disapproved, consented to change his name, and petitioned the Emperor to be allowed to call himself Stein instead. After obtaining permission, however, he kept on using his former name, and has just been fined “for illegal use of a title of nobility.”