First Report of the Commissioners ...George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1856 - 165 pages |
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alteration amongst Appendix ascertain authority aware believe binding Bishop brother brother's wife Canon Canon Law celebrated chapter of Leviticus Christian Church of England circumstances classes clergy clergyman Commissioners concubinage connexion consanguinity considered contracted contrary Council Council of Trent Courts Crowder Curate daughter deceased wife's sister degrees of affinity diocese dispensation Divine law doubt E. B. Pusey ecclesiastical expressed fact favour feeling forbidden Germany God's law ground Henry VIII husband incest inquiry instance law of nature Levitical degrees Levitical law Leviticus licence life-time living Lord Lyndhurst's Act Magistrates marriage married two sisters minister moral mother nakedness niece November 26 objection opinion parish Parliament parties persons petition Pope present prohibited degrees question reason Rector reference regard reside respect riages Scotland Scripture second marriage society solemnized solicitor statute STEPHEN LUSHINGTON supposed take place valid void widower woman xviii
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Page 155 - So then, if while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress ; but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Page 56 - Now we know that whatsoever things the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Page 38 - Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Page iii - ... the fullest information on the subject, and to inquire of and concerning the premises by all other lawful ways and means whatsoever. And we do by these presents will and ordain that this our commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and...
Page 158 - The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.
Page 159 - And all marriages so made and contracted shall be adjudged incestuous and unlawful, and consequently shall be dissolved as void from the beginning, and the parties so married shall by course of law be separated.
Page 4 - The statute then enacted, inter alia: •All marriages which shall hereafter be celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity shall be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
Page 158 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger : her husband's brother 15 shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Page 158 - The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Page 158 - Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.