Practical Treatise on Divorce and Matrimonial Jurisdiction Under the Act of 1857 and New Orders (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Practical Treatise on Divorce and Matrimonial Jurisdiction: Under the Act of 1857 and New Orders This book opens with a statement of the English law of marriage, because the first question in every case will be, are the parties really united in holy wedlock? I say holy wedlock for marriage, however entered into, is more than a merely civil contract. It is divine in its essence, though temporal and arbitrary in its multiform methods of external celebration. To use the language of M. Portalis, we cannot prescribe a term to it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.