The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-05 00:00:00

MARRIAGE LAW AME2TDIYIENT.

The following is the bill to legalise marriage with
a deceased wife's sister, which will be introduced
by Viscount Bury this evening in the House of

Commons
Whereas it is expedient to amend the law as to
marriage with a deceased wife's sister :—Be it
therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as f illews

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I. So much of any act or acts of Parliament as
render void or voidable any marriage celebrated
between a man and his deceased wife's sister is
hereby repealed.
11. Nos marriage which has been or hereafter
shall be celebrated at any time cr place what-
ever, within this realm or wi'hout, between
a man and his dece Red wife's sister, shall
be deemed t• have been nor shall be void or void-
able by reason only of the affinity of the parties
thereto, or by reason of any canonical or other ob-
j-ction or impediment, founded only on such affi-
nity, to the validity of such marriages or to the
celebration thereof, or to the validity of any license
or certificate under which the same may have been
celebrated.
H. Provided, that nothing herein contained
shall invalidate or affect any right to any dignity
or title of honour, or any esta!e, right, title, or
interest, legal, or equitable, in oc to any lands,
hereditaments, chattels, or effects vested in any
person before the passing of this act, nor any con-
tingent estate or interest, legal or equitable, in any
lands, hereditaments, or chattel real, created by or
derived from any settlement, grant, conveyance to
uses, release, appointment, or other instrument bona
fide executed before the passing of this act, or by
or from any devise or will which shall have become
operative by the death of the devisor or testat
before the passing of this act, which estate or inte-
rest would or might but for the passing of this act
hereafter become vested in, or be enjoyed by, or
held for the use or benefit of any person, but in
each and every of the cases aforesaid such esta‘e,
right, title, and interest respectively shall remain
I to all intents the same as if this act had not been

pass-d.
IV. Provided also, that nothing herein contained
shall invalidate, alter, or affect any act or thing
done before the passing of this act under the authu-
rity of any court, or in the administration of any
estate or effects, real or personal, or in the execu-
tion of any will, or in the performance of any
trust.

V. Provided alsr,, that no clergyman in holy
orders of the United Church of England and Ireland
shall be compelled to solemnize the marriage of a
man with his deceased wife's sister, or shall be
liable to any suit, penai,i3fbElisAire—for solemnir-
ing or refusing to solemnise any such marriage.
VI. This act shall Rot extend to marriages here-
after contracted in Scotland.

MARRIAGE IN AUSTRALIA WITII A
DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.

The following is the bill recently passed unani-
mously by both Le,islatures in South Australa,
and now waiting the approval of her Majesty in
Counc I.
Whereas doubts have risen e
as to a
m the v
analidity in
this province of the ,iag of with the
sister of his deceased wife, and it is expedient to re
more such doubts. 13s it therefore enacted, by he
Governor-in-Clnef of the Province of South Aus-
tralia, with the advice and consent of the Legi,la_
t ive Council and House of assembly of the said pr
vine° in this present Parliament assembled :
That all mar riages which have been. heretofore,-
or which shall be hereafter duly solemnised, witlli
n
the said province between any pereou and his de-
ceaSed wife's atster, shall be deemed and are here-
by declared valid and of full force
and effect,
anti
are hereby declared valid and of full and
effect, any law and custom to contraryTe.t force
notwith-
standing. Provided alwaysh
compulsory for any officiating minister
it shalt not be
o celebrate
such Paamaggs,