Democracy and Liberty. William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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СКАЧАТЬ legislation in the United States

       In British North America

       In New Zealand

       In Australia

       In the Scandinavian countries—The Gothenburg system

       In Switzerland

       Experiment in South Carolina, 1892

       Desire to diminish by law the temptation to drink—The Parish Councils Act

       How far legislation should deal with spectacles or other amusements leading to vice

       With noises and disfigurements in the streets

       Distinction between things that are obtruded on the notice of all and things that are not

       Marriage Laws

       Early history of Christian marriage

       Council of Trent first made a religious ceremony necessary

       Survival of the old doctrine that simple consent constitutes marriage

       Claims of the Catholic Church to rule marriage

       Opinions of Catholic divines about Protestant marriages

       The State considers marriage a civil contract

       Legislation in France before the Revolution

       Marriage Law of Henry VIII.—English common law

       Divorce in England—Case of Lord Northampton

       Commission under Edward VI

       Divorce by special Acts of Parliament

       The Marriage Act of 1753

       English legislators treated as null marriages which were ecclesiastically valid

       Marriage Act of 1836

       Purely civil marriage established by the French law of 1792

       Its effect in simplifying marriages and removing disabilities

       Various Forms of Imperfect Marriages and Marriage Disabilities

       Patrician and plebeian marriages

       The Roman concubinatus

       Priestly connections in the Middle Ages

       Morganatic marriages

       Disabilities in Germany—Prohibition of marriages without sufficient means

       Invalidity of Protestant marriages in France

       Of marriages celebrated by Nonconformist ministers in England

       Of some marriages celebrated by priests in Ireland

       Of purely religious marriages in some continental countries

       Invalidities created by differences of belief

       By the profession of an actor

       By spiritual relationship

       By vows of celibacy

       By differences of race or colour

       Civil Marriage

       Began in the Netherlands

       In French law—Its rapid spread

       Two different systems

       Hostility of the Catholic Church

       Character of civil marriage in England

       In Germany, Italy, and Switzerland

       Marriage laws in Spain

       In the Austrian Empire

       In South America

       In Scandinavian countries, Russia, Roumania

       Divorce СКАЧАТЬ