Our law considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract. The holiness of the matrimonial state is left entirely to the ecclesiastical law; the temporal courts not having jurisdiction to consider unlawful marriage as a sin, but merely as... New Englander and Yale Review - Page 523edited by - 1868Full view - About this book
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...dissolved ; and shall, lastly, take a view of the legal effects and consequence of marriage. I. OUR law considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract. The holiness of the matrimonial state is left. entirely to the ecclesiastical law : the temporal courts... | |
| John Henry Livingston - Church discipline - 1816 - 192 pages
...custos mo. rum of the people, and has the superintendency of offences contra bonos mores.* — "Our Law considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract. The holiness of the matrimonial state is left intirely to the ecclesiastical law ; the temporal courts... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 644 pages
...under an interdict, because Philip II. had presumed to divorce his queen, without his pe.rajis1 " Our law considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract. The holiness of the matrimonial state is left entirely to the matrimonial law: the temporal courts... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...dissolved; and shall, lastly, take a view of the legal effects and consequence of marriage. I. Our law considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract. And taking it in this civil light, the law treats it as it does all other contracts : allowing it to... | |
| William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - Anecdotes - 1824 - 392 pages
...the celebration of their marriages. Notwithstanding the sacredness of the institution, the English law considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract, its sanctity being left to the ecclesiastical law, to which it belongs, to punish or annul unlawful... | |
| William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...dissolved ; and shall, lastly, take a view of the legal effects and consequence of marriage. I. OUR law considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract. The holiness of the matrimonial state is left entirely to the matrimonial law : the temporal courts... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...dissolved ; and shall, lastly, take a view of the legal effects and consequence of marriage. I. OUR law considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract. The holiness of the matrimonial state is left entirely to the matrimonial law : the temporal courts... | |
| Hector Davies Morgan - Divorce - 1826 - 524 pages
...without such restrictions as are sufficient to sanction the doctrine of the divine institution. " Our law considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract. The holiness of the matrimonial state is left entirely to the ecclesiastical law ; the temporal courts... | |
| Hector Davies Morgan - Adultery - 1826 - 548 pages
...without such restrictions as are sufficient to sanction the doctrine of the divine institution. " Our law considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract. The holiness of the matrimonial state is left entirely to the ecclesiastical law ; the temporal courts... | |
| Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 440 pages
...the celebration of their marriages. Notwithstanding the sacredness of the institution, the English law considers marriage in no other light, than as a civil contract, its sanctity being left to the ecclesiastical law, to which it belongs to punish or annul unlawful... | |
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