legislation in the United States
In the Scandinavian countries—The Gothenburg system
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
Divorce by special Acts of Parliament
English legislators treated as null marriages which were ecclesiastically valid
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
Priestly connections in the Middle Ages
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 differences of race or colour
Civil Marriage
In French law—Its rapid spread
Hostility of the Catholic Church
Character of civil marriage in England
In Germany, Italy, and Switzerland
In Scandinavian countries, Russia, Roumania
Divorce
