Shall Marriage Be Made Compulsorily a Civil Contract in the First Instance?
Others again may point to the declarations of the French National Assemblies that the law regarded marriage merely as a civil contract, and that divorce was to be a logical sequel of individual liberty, "which an indissoluble tie would annul.
Marriage, under the Roman Church, instead of a civil contract, came to be considered a sacrament of the Church, which it was unlawful to dissolve.
In Scotland, from the time of the Reformation, divorce might be obtained by either party on the ground of adultery, marriage being held to be only a civil contract, and as such under the jurisdiction of the civil courts.
Marriage is treated as a civil contract to which the State is always an added party.
As with the Mohammedans it was simply a civil contract.
Marriage, according to Mohammedan law, is simply a civil contract, and its validity does not depend upon any religious ceremony.
Marriage is treated in Holland as a civil contract.
No minister of religion need be present at a civil contract, even if it take place in a chapel or building certified for marriages.
In most foreign countries a civil contract has to precede any religious ceremony that may be desired.
It is, declares Fulke, "nothing else but a devilish slander to say that we 'esteem it but in respect of the flesh, or for a civil contract.
As to the form of civil contract, it is only essential that somewhere in the ceremony the following declarations be introduced.
Doubtless he did not forget that marriage from its social and ethical sides is something higher than a mere civil contract.
The result was that marriage in New Hampshire has borne from the outset not only the character of a civil contract, but the impress of our township system.
Marriage was declared to be, not a sacrament, but a civil contract in which the intervention of a priest was unnecessary and out of place.
Unlike the Church, I look on marriage as A civil contract, not a sacrament.
To Rome and not to the Bible we must go for all the authority we can produce for denying that marriage is simply a civil contract.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civil contract" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
