 | Albert Venn Dicey - Conflict of laws - 1896 - 972 pages
...man and a woman in a foreign country is not a valid marriage, according to English law, unless it be the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. In re Bethell, 1888, 38 Ch. D. 220. See Intro., General Principle No. II. (B), p. 32, ante. 2 This is... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - Conflict of laws - 1896 - 972 pages
...authorised to be a marriage officer under, the said Act. 6 In this Digest, the term " marriage " means the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. 7 8 Tauut. 830 ; Rex v. Brampton, 1808, 10 East, 282. See also, Marriage Cammission Report, p. 1. 1... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - Conflict of laws - 1896 - 970 pages
...authorised to be a marriage officer under, the said Act.6 In this Digest, the term " marriage " means the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.7 8 Taunt. 830 ; Rex v. Brampton, 1808, 10 East, 282. See also, Marriage Commission Report,... | |
 | John Mews - Courts - 1898 - 856 pages
...England unless it be formed on the same basis as marriages throughout Christendom, and be in itsessence "the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of uU others." JM/iell, In re, Bet/iell \. Hitrlyrird, 67 LJ, Ch. 487 ; 38 Ch. D. 2i>0 ; 68 LT 674 ; 36... | |
 | Comparative law - 1899 - 304 pages
...this is wrong. Looked at from English law, " a marriage according to Chinese law and custom not being the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, cannot be recognised by the English law, and, having regard to the introduction of English law into... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1900 - 888 pages
...constitutes a valid marriaye. Marriage, as understood in Christendom, is the voluntary Marriage how union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of Cons1nm'" all others («). It is constituted by the cotyunctio aninwrnni or present consent of the... | |
 | Comparative law - 1900 - 436 pages
...formed on the same basis as marriages throughout Christendom, and be in its essence the voluntary union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others." Conclusion as to Grounds of Decision. — I confess that when I first read the judgment, I agreed with... | |
 | K. G. Dodwell Browne - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 572 pages
...Penzance raid in the case of Hyde v. Hyde, " I conceive that marriage, as understood in Christendom, may be defined as the voluntary " union for life of one...man and one woman, to the exclu"sion of all others." Although a marriage contracted by Mohamedans is called by the same name as a monagamous marriage, yet... | |
 | Frederic Walter Fuller - Egypt - 1901 - 462 pages
...man and a woman in a foreign country is not a valid marriage according to English law unless it be the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. The question does not seem to have been carried to the House of Lords on appeal. References to this... | |
 | Comparative law - 1902 - 446 pages
...union, a Christian marriage as that term is understood in our Courts, " the voluntary union," that is, " for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others " ? Mr. Justice Stirling, in the Baralong case, held not; but Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, in his recent... | |
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I conceive that marriage, as understood in Christendom, may for this purpose be defined as the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others. 
