Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: t m " B ' m m . m I'RtJii.ls.sifs'J-tlfi' l lijjr lQc|eo|ti|a£|to|lo £ fr E rn. jjfeen England and Scot- ,t c. 2), which made one ijtish Parliament, for the tovided that the existing 1 of each kingdom should I far as they might be subsequent legislation, jurisprudence is the n law which is derived law of marriage and s from that of England. by Scottish law may be ways: First, by regular in a church or pri- ? religion; second, by an 'jrriage entered into with- elergyman or any other ;' declaration, or declara- inake a declaration con- a, and are fined for the ict of the "sentence" Ifpose of a certificate of of marriage is given by "The voluntary union to the exclusion of all .der fourteen and females but if persons under i law "pupils," live to- :o after both have passed idered married, on the33 contract after a|fut give a valid either party p Eaarriage if one f!mal union was s; I -1;0 1reason, but a j | : | fj-.-c | -i | o I either insanity the consent of or sobriety, to the impedi- !3?|SllBp marriage, the S!p£|is is practically forbidden be- infinitum, and :l.-;|it|;rs and sisters, leen all collat- jparentis to the whether or Bster both born :still subsisting rder to put a which have silje in books and enacted by 19 ui:[rr|gular marriage s" Jalfttlm, acknowledg- a|:£jll856) shall be fifed at the date pesidence there, days next Ml cl.cisions that in lii§ei§s,|oi|rr|age in Scotland lhgl:oi dnsent. No formal expression of such consent is necessary. If the court is satisfied, from the whole circumstances and the conduct of the parties before and after, that they have given genuine consent to present marriage, it will be held that the marriage has been validly constituted. Husrand And Wife.—By the common law of Scotland the legal status...