The Geography of Marriage: Or, Legal Perplexities of Wedlock in the United StatesG.P. Putnam's sons, 1889 - 334 páginas |
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absent accused can show adultery age of consent authorized bed and board blood bride and groom brother certificate consanguinity consent of parents constitute contract contrary to law conviction county clerk court cousins crime declared decree dissolved divorce eighteen exceeding $500 father female fined not exceeding Forbidden Marriages forfeit former husband gospel granted guilty of bigamy guilty party husband and wife husband or wife imprisonment not exceeding imprisonment not less incest innocent party issuing a license judge justice Kentucky legal consent legislation legitimate marriage and divorce marriage license Massachusetts matrimonial ment Miscegenation misdemeanor mother mulatto negro officer omnibus clauses parent or guardian penalty perform the ceremony persons in marriage polygamy probate prohibited punishable by imprisonment record religious society riage second marriage sister six months solemnize marriage South Carolina statute Territory tion unless the accused void Washington Territory wedding West Virginia white person widow wife living witnesses woman
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Página 207 - Marriages between parents and children, ancestors and descendants of every degree, and between brothers and sisters of the half as well as the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews, are incestuous, and void from the beginning, whether the relationship is legitimate or illegitimate.
Página 279 - Every person who takes any woman unlawfully, against her will, and by force, menace, or duress, compels her to marry him, or to marry any other person, or to be defiled ,is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than two nor more than fourteen years.
Página 112 - N , to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I give thee my troth.
Página 284 - And be it enacted, that if any person being married, shall marry any other person during the life of the former husband or wife, whether the second marriage shall have taken place in England or elsewhere, every such offender, and every person counselling, aiding, or abetting such offender, shall be guilty of felony...
Página 28 - Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short ; Youth is nimble, age is lame ; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild, and age is tame...
Página 222 - Marriages between parents and children, including grand-parents and grand-children of every degree, between brothers and sisters of the half as well as of the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, are declared to be incestuous and absolutely void. This section shall extend to illegitimate as well as legitimate children and relations.
Página 103 - s not sweeter. Honest wedlock Is like a banqueting house built in a garden, On which the spring's chaste flowers take delight To cast their modest odours...
Página 251 - No man shall marry his mother, grandmother, daughter, granddaughter, stepmother, grandfather's wife, son's wife, grandson's wife, wife's mother, wife's grandmother, wife's daughter, wife's granddaughter, nor his sister, brother's daughter, sister's daughter, father's sister, or mother's sister.
Página 235 - Confirmed habit of drunkenness on the part of the husband of not less than one year's duration, accompanied with a wasting of his estate, and without any suitable provision for the maintenance of his wife or children. (a) 2. Habitually behaving towards her by the husband, for not less than six months, in such cruel and inhuman manner as to indicate a settled aversion to her, or to destroy permanently her peace or happiness.
Página 220 - A subsequent marriage contracted by any person during the life of a former husband or wife of such person, with any person other than such former husband or wife is illegal and void from the beginning, unless: 1.
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