The legal degrees of marriage stated and considered in a series of letters to a friend / By John Alleyne.

  • John Alleyne
Date:
1774
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Credit: The legal degrees of marriage stated and considered in a series of letters to a friend / By John Alleyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1(5) trated—there can be no mifchief derived from making it— Under the influence of thefe fentiments it was, that I told you, I could fee no objection to your intended application to the legifla- 4ure,—for though the explaining the fubjedl would be attended with trouble, yet k would be attended with the happy circumftances of refcuing the mind of man from the illiberal abfurdities of papal relidfs,—and would ad~ minifter peace, and happinefs to numbers, whofe natural liberty is now unwifely re¬ trained, and who therefore were entituled to call upon the legiflature, for relief, at the expence of any trouble.—Indeed I went fur¬ ther, and told you, that if the legiflature fhould not interpofe, that my fincere opinion was, that the temporal courts would give relief in many more inftances than was ge¬ nerally fuppofed,—for that the law, when fairly expounded, was by no means fo rigid as it has been reprefented, on a partial and prejudiced view of it. To vindicate thefe general condufions, l fhall now confider the fubjed of your cafe, under two general queftions, it It
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