Essay on Divorce and Divorce Legislation, with Special Reference to the United StatesScribner, 1869 - 308 Seiten |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 176 - 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...
Seite 53 - And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. 12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Seite 52 - The law and the prophets were until John ; since that time, the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. 17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Seite 193 - 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 a civil inconvenience.
Seite 71 - For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.
Seite 188 - Divorces from the bonds of matrimony shall not be allowed but by the judgment of a court, as shall be prescribed by law.
Seite 204 - Habitual drunkenness of either party, or the failure of the husband to make reasonable provision for his family. 6. The conviction, subsequent to the marriage, in any country, of either party of an infamous crime. 7. Any other cause for which the Court shall deem it proper that a divorce should be granted.
Seite 22 - And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. Yet ye say, "Wherefore?
Seite 219 - ... permanently destroys the happiness of the petitioner and defeats the purposes of the marriage relation.
Seite 189 - ... In this country, where divorces are not allowed for any cause whatever, we sometimes see men of excellent characters unfortunate in their marriages, and virtuous women abandoned or driven away houseless by their husbands, who would be doomed to celibacy and solitude, if they did not form connections which the law does not allow, and who make excellent husbands and virtuous wives still.