Marriage with a deceased wife's sister, evidence given before the Commission appointed to inquire into the law of marriage. To which is appended A speech in the case of the queen v. the parish of St. Giles-in-the-fields, by E. Badeley |
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1st cousins 28 Henry VIIIth 2nd degree 32 Henry 4th degree adopted allowed ancient aunt authority Basil binding Bishop Book of Leviticus brother brother's wife canon law Canonists chapter of Leviticus Christian Church of England civil law clergy consanguinity Council of Orleans Council of Trent deceased wife's sister degrees of affinity degrees prohibited dispensation Divine law E. B. PUSEY ecclesiastical courts ecclesiastical law Edition English Church etiam Evidence expressly father forbidden forbids fratris given ground heathen hibited Holy Scripture incest interpretation judgment jure Karaites laity law of nature Levitical degrees Levitical law marriage marry mentioned moral mother nakedness persons polygamy Pope principle prohibited degrees quæ Queen question quod relation repealed revived riage Roman rule says SERMONS soror speaks Statute of 32 Statute of Henry sunt suppose thing tion uncle and niece uxor uxorem verse words xviii
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Page 63 - 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 8 - Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Page xciii - And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Page 98 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things : for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you : and the land is defiled : therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Page 119 - ... that part of the said body politic called the spiritualty, now being usually called the English Church, which always hath been reputed and also found of that sort that both for knowledge, integrity and sufficiency of number, it hath been always thought and is also at this hour sufficient and meet of itself, without the intermeddling of any exterior person or persons, to declare and determine all such doubts and to administer all such offices and duties as to their rooms spiritual doth appertain.
Page lxx - The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth ; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will ; only in the Lord.
Page 99 - Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.
Page 98 - ... (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) 28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Page lxxii - Jesus answered and said unto them ye do err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.