A plea for restrictions on marriage by reason of affinity, a paper read at Oxford diocesan conference by the chancellor of the diocese [M.C.M. Swabey]. |
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Page 11 - 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 10 - I forbidden so to do by other words, which by exposition are plain enough ; for when God commands me I shall not marry my brother's wife, it follows directly by the same that he forbids me to marry my wife's sister; for between one man and two sisters, and one woman and two brothers, is like analogy or proportion, which is my judgment in this case; and other such like ought to be taken for a rule.
Page 10 - To which the same book adds two particular rules for our direction in this matter, — 1. That the degrees which are laid down as to men will hold equally as to women in the same proximity. 2. That the husband and wife are but one flesh ; so that he who is related to the one by consanguinity, is related to the other by affinity in the same degree.
Page 9 - And that no reservation or prohibition, God's law except, shall trouble or impeach any marriage without the Levitical degrees.
Page 10 - Levitical degrees is to be observed, that all the degrees by name are not expressly set down ; for the Holy Ghost there did only declare plainly and clearly such degrees from whence the rest might evidently be deduced. As, for example, where it is prohibited that the son shall not marry his mother, it followeth also that the daughter shall not marry her father.
Page 10 - ... do by other words, which by exposition are plain enough : for when God commands me that I shall not marry my brother's wife, it follows directly by the same that he forbids me to marry my wife's sister : for between one man and two sisters, and one woman and two brothers, is like analogy or proportion.
Page 9 - ... marry his uncle's wife; or the father to marry his son's wife; or the brother to marry his brother's wife ; or any man to marry his wife's daughter, or his wife's son's daughter, or his wife's daughter's daughter, or his wife's sister; which marriages albeit they be prohibited by the laws of God, yet nevertheless at some time they have proceeded under colour of dispensation by man's power; it is enacted, that no person shall from henceforth marry within the said degrees.
Page 10 - Good, though it was alleged that the precept primb facie seemed to be only against having two sisters at the same time, and prohibition to the spiritual court was granted ; yet in the Trinity term next following, after hearing civilians, they granted a consultation, as in a matter within the statute 32 Hen.