...such payment shall be so made as aforesaid, the said term of 1000 years, shall cease and determine and be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. AND the said [purchaser] doth hereby for himself, his executors, administrators and assigns, covenant,...

...the prohibited degrees of consanguinity:" and it also enacts, sec. 2, "That all marriages which shall thereafter be celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity shall be absolutely null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever (a)." (a) As there is no...

...any sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court, unless pronounced in a suit which should be depending at the time of the passing of the said act ; and it was...affinity, under a sincere conviction that such marriages are not forbidden by the Divine law : and whereas it is expedient to alter and amend the said recited...

...annulled for that cause by any sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court, was followed by another, which enacted, that all marriages which should thereafter...should be " absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever." It was stated, indeed, by several of the members of the House of Commons who...

...prohibited degrees of consanguinity." It further enacts,(/) that all marriages which shall hereafter be celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity shall be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. It provides(g-) that nothing...

...marriage impregnable. This absurd state of things was put an end to by Lord Lyndhursfs act of 1835, which enacted " That all marriages which should thereafter...celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of affinity or consanguinity should be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever."...

...goes on to enact, ' That all marriages which shall hereafter (that is, after the 31st August, 1835) be celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity shall be absolutely void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.' So that instead of expressing an...

...ner, or of the lord chancellor or keeper of the great seal, " in case no guardian be appointed, shall be absolutely null " and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and shall " not be deemed, adjudged, or construed by any spiritual " court as contracts or marriages, if...

...unmarried, then of a guardian or guardians of the person appointed by the Court of Chancery, shall be absolutely null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever : and whereas great evils and injustice have arisen from such provisions : for remedy bereof, be it enacted by the...

...declared. Stat. S & C W. 4. c. 54. x. 2. (passed 31st August, 1X351 enacts that all marriages which shall thereafter be celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity shall be null and void. The prohibited degrees arc those declared by stat. 28 //. 8. c. 7. ». 11....