 | Thomas Walter Williams - Judges - 1808 - 906 pages
...transported for seven years. *. 3. BIGAMY.] — Bigamy, according to the doctrine of flic civilians, consists in marrying two virgins successively, one after the death of the other, or in once marrying a widow ; but the felonious offence against the rights of marriage by nur law, in tiling a plurality of wives... | |
 | John Nichols - Ana - 1809 - 554 pages
...a vast sum of money (Stow's Survey, b. III. p. 54.) See before, Cent. V. Nos. XXV. and XXVI. XCIV. Bigamy, according to the Canonists, consisted in marrying...widow. Such were esteemed incapable of holy orders. The Council of Lyons in 1274 denied priests so married all clerical privileges. This Canon was adopted... | |
 | Samuel Pegge - Anas - 1809 - 542 pages
...themselves for a vast sum of money (Stow's Survey, b. III. p. 54.) See before, Cent. V. Nos. XXV. and XXVI. Bigamy, according to the Canonists, consisted in marrying two virgins successively, one afier XCIV. the death of the other ; or in once marrying a widow. Such were esteemed incapable of holy... | |
 | Samuel Pegge - Anas - 1818 - 392 pages
...a vast sum of money (Stow's Survey, b. III. p. 54.) See before, Cent. V. Nos. XXV. and XXVI. XCIV. Bigamy, according to the Canonists, consisted in marrying...widow. Such were esteemed incapable of holy orders. The Council of Lyons in 1274 denied priests so married all clerical privileges. This Canon was adopted... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...ecclesiastical benefice ; much less can a bigamist have such a benefice according to that law. Ayliffe. Bigamy, according to the canonists, consisted in marrying two virgins successively, one after the uther, or once marrying a widow. Blackitone't Commentaries. BIGAMY properly signifies being twice married,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 854 pages
...to signify the offence of polygamy, or the having a plurality of wives or husbands at once. 3 Insl. 88. Bigamy, according to the canonists, consisted...of Lyons, AD 1274, denied all clerical privileges. A second marriage, the former husband or wife living, u, by the ecclesiastical law of England, simply... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...world, even from the time of our German ancestors, who, as Tacitus informs us (c), " prope soli bar(4) 3 Inst. 88. Bigamy, according to the canonists, consisted...other, or in once marrying a widow. Such were esteemed im-:ipable of orders, &c. ; and by a canon of the council of Lyons, AD 1274, held under pope Gregory... | |
 | Leonard Shelford - Divorce - 1841 - 532 pages
...being twice married, and not having a plurality of wives at once. According to the canonists bigamy consisted in marrying two virgins successively, one...after the death of the other, or in once marrying a widow.(rf) This offence was originally of ecclesiastical cognizance only, but it was made a felony... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...Bigamie. Code lib. 9, tit. 9, I. 18 ; and lib. 5, tit. 5, I. 2. According to the canonists, bigamy consisted in marrying two virgins successively, one...the death of the other, or in once marrying a widow ; persons who had so married were considered 17* incapable of orders. Bac. Ab. ht ; (j Decret. I. 12.... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1843 - 1086 pages
...married, and not having a plurality of wives at once. According to the canonists, bigamy conlisted in marrying two virgins successively, one after the...death of the other ; or in once marrying a widow. 4 Blac. Com. 163, note 6. And sec Bac. Abr. tit Bigamy, in the notes. (b) See as to accessories, putt... | |
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Bigamy, according to the canonists, consisted in marrying two virgins successively, one after the death of the other, or in once marrying a widow. 
