The Reminiscences of the Right Hon. Lord O'Brien (of Kilfenora): Lord Chief Justice of Ireland

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Longmans, Green, 1916 - 194 sider

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Side 132 - Protestant, or between any person, who hath been or professed himself or herself to be a Protestant, at any time within twelve months before such celebration of marriage...
Side 4 - Russell moved for a Committee of the whole House to take into consideration the state of Ireland.
Side 78 - I asked him what he wanted, and he told me that he wished to enlist my support for a relation of his who was candidate for some local appointment.
Side 129 - ... itself into three branches : In respect of, first, the religious character of the ceremony ; second, the notoriety and proof of marriage ; and third, the prevention of such marriages as are forbidden by law. First, is the clergyman required to be present only as an ecclesiastical entity representing the church, for the purpose of giving a religious character to the ceremony, and of invoking by ordained lips the blessing of Heaven upon the union ; and is this all that he has to do ? Because, if...
Side 121 - Ireland, (though not under pain of nullity,) to be preceded by the publication of banns for three Sundays, unless dispensed with, (as in Ireland it usually is,) by episcopal licence. Of these matters, however, (being requisites of marriage by the internal economy only of the Roman Catholic Church,) the law of the land takes no cognizance ; and...
Side 39 - Lord Ellenborough summed up the evidence ; the jury, after half an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy. Two days after, on the 9th of February, twelve of the other prisoners were brought to the same bar.
Side 129 - Willes gives very ample and satisfactory reasons why the presence of a third person, a clergyman, should be required. They suggest that there must be three reasons for requiring his presence: First, that it may be that he is to be a representative of the Church, for the purpose of giving a religious character to the ceremony, and invoking from the Almighty a blessing on the union, for that is the only sense in which a blessing can be given by human lips. Secondly, that he must be present as a trustworthy...
Side 118 - But it is my duty to say that your Lordships are bound by this decision as much as if it had been pronounced nemine dissentiente , and that the rule of law which your Lordships lay down as the ground of your judgment, sitting judicially, as the last and supreme Court of Appeal for this Empire, must be taken for law till altered by an act of Parliament, agreed to by the...
Side 121 - Presbyterian marriages ; and (3.) marriages under a registrar's certificate or licence. (1.) Roman Catholic Marriages. Until the year 1863, marriages between two Roman Catholics, (being the great majority of the whole number of marriages annually solemnized in Ireland,) were left to the operation of the common law, without any statutory enactment : and, so far as relates to the legal constitution of marriage between such parties, this is still the case ; the provisions of the Act passed in that year,...
Side 122 - ... essential to the constitution and validity of the marriage with others not essential. An important exception, however, to this general agreement is found in Ireland in the case of Roman Catholic marriages, for which no conditions of the latter kind are prescribed. In both countries provision is made for a general registry of marriages, with a view to their greater publicity and more authentic proof, but the validity or the proof of marriage is not made dependent upon such registration, or upon...

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