 | Simon Greenleaf - 1854 - 784 pages
...rites, and inflicting penalties on all who disobey the regulations, yet it is generally considered that, in the absence of any positive statute, declaring...observing the statute regulations, would still be a valid marriage.2 A marriage, celebrated in any 1 2 Kent, Comm. p. 87 ; Fenton v. Reed, 4 Johns. 52 ; Jackson... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 674 pages
...in the manner it prescribes, shall be absolutely void, or that none but certain designated persons shall solemnize a marriage, any marriage regularly made according to the common law would be valid, although the regulations of the statute may not have been observed. (c) These will... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 808 pages
...ami inflicting penalties on all who disobey the regulations, yet it is goncr:illy considered, that, in the absence of any positive statute declaring that...marriages not celebrated in the prescribed manner shall be void, or that none but certain magistrates or ministers shall solemnize a marriage, any marriage, regularly... | |
 | 1878 - 542 pages
...rites, and inflicting penalties on all who disobey the regulations, yet it is generally considered that in the absence of any positive statute declaring that...marriages not celebrated in the prescribed manner shall be void, or that but certain magistrates or ministers shall solemnize a marriage, any marriage, regularly... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 884 pages
...marriage, and inflicting penalties on all who disobey the regulations, yet it is generally considered that in the absence of any positive statute declaring that...or that none but certain magistrates or ministers Dyer v. Brunnock. shall solemnize a marriage, any marriage regularly made according to the common law,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1881 - 878 pages
...rites, and inflicting penalties on all who disobey the regulations, yet it is generally considered that, in the absence of any positive statute declaring that...marriages not celebrated in the prescribed manner shall be void, or that none but certain magistrates or ministers shall solemnize a marriage, any marriage, regularly... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf, Simon Greenleaf Croswell - 1883 - 784 pages
...rites, and inflicting penalties on all who disobey the regulations, yet it is generally considered that, in the absence of any positive statute declaring that...solemnize a marriage, any marriage, regularly made accordiug to the common law, without observing the statute 1 2 Kent, Comm. p. 87 ; Fenton «. Reed,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 804 pages
...that all marOct. 1877.] MEISTER v. MOORE. 81 riages not celebrated in the prescribed manner shall be void, or that none but certain magistrates or ministers...statute regulations, would still be a valid marriage." As before remarked, the statutes are held merely directory ; because marriage is a thing of common... | |
 | Irving Browne - 1890 - 214 pages
...marriage, and inflicting penalties on all who disobey the regulations, yet it is generally considered that in the absence of any positive statute declaring that...that none but certain magistrates or ministers shall celebrate a marriage, any marriage regularly made according to the common law, without observing the... | |
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Though in most, if not all, the United States there are statutes regulating the celebration of marriage rites, and inflicting penalties on all who disobey the regulations, yet it is generally considered, that, in the absence of any positive statute declaring... 
