A Practical Treatise of the Law of Marriage and Divorce, and Registration: As Altered by the Recent Statutes, Containing Also the Mode of Proceeding on Divorces in the Ecclesiastical Courts and in Parliament, the Right to the Custody of Children, Voluntary Separation Between Husband and Wife, and the Husband's Liability to Wife's Debts, and the Conflict Between the Laws of England and Scotland Respecting Divorce and Legitimacy, with an Appendix of Statutes

J.S. Littell, 1841 - Divorce - 1030 pages

OF THE GENERAL NATURE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT AND ORIGIN OF THE LAW	25

The Canon Law the Basis of the Law of Marriage 17	36

CHAPTER II	42

Of Marriages in the British Colonies	54

Exception in the Marriage Acts	71

Of Marriages in Ambassadors Chapels	78

Personal Contracts decided according to Lex loci Contractus	113

Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts as to Foreign Mar	121

Of the Mode of Proceeding in the Ecclesiastical Courts 485	277

Imprisonment for Contempt not in the Discretion of the Ecclesias	288

Objections to the Admissibility of Pleadings 509	294

Pleading in Forma Pauperis 518	300

Excepting to the Credit of Witnesses 527	306

99	307

Security for Costs 535	312

Attendance of Registrar id	322

When Marriages are valid though not celebrated according	128

Evidence of Foreign Marriage	134

Of Bigamy 223	138

Table of Degrees	147

As to avoiding Marriages within the prohibited Degrees	155

Nature and evidence of Insanity	165

Medical Certificate	173

CHAPTER IV	191

91	195

Of Parliamentary Divorce 373	198

97	215

Of the Causes which bar Divorce 439	244

CHAPTER V	258

Of the Effect of Sentences in the Ecclesiastical Courts 469	265

Marriage after parliamentary divorce 476 ངོརྨབྲི	270

102	327

Attentats 562	329

Of Suits for Restitution of Conjugal Rights 574	339

Defences to Charge of Jactitation 584	344

CHAPTER VI	361

Of the Jurisdiction of Courts of Equity in enforcing Agreement	377

Of the Wifes Remedies against the Husband when Molested by	402

Instances where Marriages were not constituted	407

Of the Right to the Custody of Children 677	408

Right to the Custody of his Children 684	414

Jurisdiction to control the parental authority on the ground of	421

Case in which the Court refused to interfere id	427

CHAPTER VII	448

Of Legitimacy 781	482

Marriages of English Parties in Scotland	506

Title	A Practical Treatise of the Law of Marriage and Divorce, and Registration: As Altered by the Recent Statutes, Containing Also the Mode of Proceeding on Divorces in the Ecclesiastical Courts and in Parliament, the Right to the Custody of Children, Voluntary Separation Between Husband and Wife ... Volume 17 of Law library Making of modern law
Author	Leonard Shelford
Publisher	J.S. Littell, 1841
Original from	University of Chicago
Digitized	19 Nov 2015
Length	1030 pages

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