2. Local law such as a zoning ordinance enacted by the governing body of a city or municipality which applies only within its boundaries. To have full force and effect of law, an ordinance must not be in conflict with any higher law such as state or national law or constitutional provisions.
In 1844 or 1845, Harriet married John Tubman, a free black. The marriage was apparently not a good match, from the beginning. Shortly after her marriage, she hired a lawyer to investigate her own legal history, and discovered that her mother had been freed on a technicality upon the death of a former owner.
In 1869, Sarah Bradford published a short biography of Tubman called Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, bringing brief fame and financial relief to Tubman and her family. She married Nelson Davis, a veteran, that same year; her husband John Tubman had been killed in 1867 in Dorchester County, Maryland.