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

...consanguinity ; and it was by the said Act also enacted, that all marriages •which should thereafter be celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity should be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever : and whereas numerous marriages...

...Ecclesiastical Court, was followed by another, which enacted, that all marriages which should thereafter be celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity should be " absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever." It was stated, indeed,...

...consanguinity ; and it was by the said act also enacted, that all marriages which should thereafter be celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity should be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever : and whereas numerous marriages...

...the world this ridiculous state of things, that in one part i The statute only says that " marriages between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity" shall be void, and many doubts have recently been raised whether the marriage of a man with his deceased wife's...

...affinity should remain unsettled during so long a period, and it is fitting that all marriages which may hereafter be celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity should be ipso facto void, and not merely voidable :' be it therefore Marriagei enacted, &c., That...

...the express provisions of a recent statute. The '2nd section of the 5, 0 Will. IV. c. 54, enacts " that all marriages " which shall hereafter be celebrated...consanguinity or affinity, " shall be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes " whatsoever ;" that statute was passed in August, 1835, prior to the marriage...

...pronounced in a suit which shall be depending at the time of the passing of this act : " and, by sect. 2, " that all marriages which shall hereafter be celebrated...consanguinity or affinity shall be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever." The questions which arise on the present occasion therefore...

...prohibited degrees of consanguinity ; and by sec. 2, all marriages celebrated after the said 31st of August, between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity shall be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. So that it should seem that where a marriage now takes place...

...affinity, should remain unsettled during so long a period, and it is fitting that all marriages which may hereafter be celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity should be ipso facto void, and not merely voidable." The prohibited degrees are mentioned both in the...