The Report of Her Majesty's Commission on the Laws of Marriage, Relative to Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister, Examined in a Letter to Sir Robert Harry Inglis
The Report of Her Majesty's Commission on the Laws of Marriage, Relative to Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister, Examined in a Letter to Sir Robert Harry Inglis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...cannot understand why, marrying a wife's mother heing acknowledgedly incestuous, there can he so little harm in marrying a wife's sister. The permissihility of the latter alliance must rest upon marriage not creating a relationship hetween the hushand and the wife's family, similar to that existing hetween him and his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...cannot understand why, marrying a wife's mother heing acknowledgedly incestuous, there can he so little harm in marrying a wife's sister. The permissihility of the latter alliance must rest upon marriage not creating a relationship hetween the hushand and the wife's family, similar to that existing hetween him and his own--on him and his wife not heing " one flesh " in this sense. If marriage does create such relationship, it would he hardly credihle that so near a relation as the sister of her who is " one flesh " with one, could he a person with whom a marriage could without loss of purity he contracted. But on the other side, if such a relationship is not created, where is the pollution of an alliance with your wife's mother--a woman no way connected with you hy hlood? Either hoth must he, as far as I can understand, lawful, or hoth unlawful. The next clerical witness is the Right Rev. Nicholas Wiseman, D.D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Melipotamus, and Pro-Vicar Apostolic of the London District. Dr. Wiseman is in favour of the relaxation, taking up the present Roman Catholic ground, that those marriages are ecclesiastically and not scripturally unlawful, and that the ecclesiastical prohihition heing dispensahle, licence ought to he given to allow of this dispensing power to work. If the law were relaxed, such marriages would still he forhidden in the Church of Rome, except when legalised hy dispensation. The Bishop is of course in this, pleading the cause of his own fellow Roman Catholics exclusively, as such, and not that of the citizens of England generally. His feelings are in favour of giving the dispensation to persons of the lower orders, who are compelled to live together, and whom the proximity might expose to temptation. The fo...
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