Civil marriage is the only form recognized by law.
As in France, civil marriage is the only form of marriage recognized by the State.
An adherent of the State church who has never been baptized or who has never been prepared for the rite of the Lord's Supper has recourse only to a civil marriage.
The question now arises as to the causes which determined the establishment of civil marriage in the New England colonies.
The enactments of the Twelve Tables respecting -usus- show clearly that they found the civil marriage already in existence.
She would hear nothing of a civil marriage, because a civil marriagewas no marriage in the eyes of Pope and prelate.
He urged a civil marriage, but she declared that only a marriage according to the rites of the Church could ever purify her past and give her back her self-respect.
What then is civil marriage, and what ought it to be?
Moreover, the traditional conception of the dependence of woman disturbs the purity and justice of civil marriage.
In my opinion, the first fundamental principles of civil marriage should be absolute legal equality of the two conjoints and complete separation of property.
These will insure confidence in the validity of civil marriage and a belief in the personal rights of individuals.
Civil marriage, where the church is supreme, is followed by excommunication and odious insults.
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