The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

July 25,184,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

BuNN v. LlND.—Three tnousand five hundred Pn.un;
was paid into court on Tuesday in this celebrated actio
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—An aeti°l o
this kind was tried at Hertford ou Monday. The plain,
the daughter of a farmer, was of the age of 35 • the
fondant, a cattle dealer, numbered 48 years. A trim
dn
connection was proved, a child having been born, at)
defence of the defendant, when the plaintiff's familPt
mended that he should marry her, was, that "his 'V
would not let him !" The promise was not denied,
the jury gave £lOO-damages.
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THE LAW OF MARRIAGE.—The Commissioner; tl
pointed " to inquire into the state and operation °L
law of marriage, as related to the prohibited degeeiti
affinity, and to marriages solemnised abroad or in
tp
British colonies," have made their report. The ger:te
men to whom this most responsible duty was entru-„.,
were the Bishop of Lichfield, Mr. Stuart Wortley, t;
judge advocate), Dr. Lushington, Mr. Blake, Mr. J°- f)
Williams, and Mr. Rutherford, the present lord niklij
The whole question. or at least material questio
elucidation, arose out of the indictment, at the 1110
pool assizes, of a person named Chadwick, living in' t 0
chester, for bigamy, he having married the sister o`lo
deceased wife, and whilst she was yet living having, lel
ried again. Mr. Justice Wightman, upon the trill.;
pii
that the marriage with the sister of the decenseuv
was within the prohibited degrees intended bY,
Lyndhurst's act. This marriage was consequently d'fiol
invalid, and the man was acquitted. The main quelio
then, to which the commissioners directed their atte!r ;
was whether marriage with a deceased wife's sigroe,
within the prohibited degrees of affinity ; and in en,n,
tion with that subject, they endeavoured to ascertal
as practicable, the effect of Lord Lyndhurq'Sji.;
5. _ On the first of these topi

one commissioa,;sie,
there is a great diversity of opinion; that the Preoge
feeling amongst the witnesses is against such /nor ‘_ti,
but that, judging from the evidence, they cannot e!'o%
tain a reasonable doubt that families of a religioill'o
moral character have, in instances where such c9:eo
tious have taken place among themselves or their IV
been perfectly satisfied, upon a review of the w1191.%0
ject, that they are not objectionable either on religic"o
moral grounds. With regard to the act of 1835'fill
s a wise amendment o'o
'shed the distinction be
lji
Mate that in J.d

commissioners state it w

law, in so fa
d v

ed inq

Lt the instigation 1
to ascertain to

le of sot

to- warrant

..pplication to Parliament fori;
iteration in the law. The inquiry was short, andllu3di
to a small portion of England alone; but it o%e
covered that 1384 marriages within the prohibited cleehi(
had been contracted since Lord Lyndhurst's act, ofscife
more than nine-tenths were with a deceased
sister. Only 88 cases were the

had prevented an intended marr
the whole subject, the conclusio

is, that the act of 1835

express a doubt whether any

character would be effectual. Such m- arrirages:
say, will take place, when a concurrence of eircuniseo
give Ilse to mutual attachment. They are not dePePeoo
upon legislation ; and it is added that such attachn'etli.
and marriages are not likely to be extensively iricrroV'
in number, because it is not the state of the law, root°
bitory or permissive, which ever will effectually geed'
them. Among the witnesses examined before the t''
mittee were the Rev. J. Garbett (examining char'r
the Bishop of Manchester), the Hon. and Rev. Nl' t.i
cival, Dr. Pusey, Dr. Wiseman, Dr. Cox (the .
minister), the Rev. R. C. Jenkins. Archdeacon S'g',o

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