The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, Volum 14

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Butterworths, 1863

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Side 377 - marriage, in its origin, is a contract of natural law ; it may exist between two individuals of different sexes, although no third person existed in the world, as happened in the case of the common ancestors of mankind. It is the parent, not the child, of civil society. In civil society it becomes a civil contract, regulated and prescribed by law, and endowed with civil consequences.
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