MARRIAGE LAW
DECISION IN CANADIAN APPEAL CASE.
(Rec. February 13, 5.5 p.m.)
London, February 11
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has finally disposed of a seven-year-old case, Des Patie versus Temblay, in which a husband sought to nullify his marriage on the ground that he and his wife, who are Roman Catholics, were cousins, though only in the fourth degree. The Canadian Court held that the civil code of Quebec upheld the Papal law enacted by the Council of Latern in 1215, which decVred that such marriages •were invalid. Baron Moulton, in delivering judgment, said that there was complete religious liberty ill l Canada. Though n priest could refuse to solemnise a marriage, this did not prevent people from marrying. There was nothing in the Civil code to enable a marriage to be annulled because a religions body objected, and therefore the appeal would be allowed. Aus—N Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 120, 14 February 1921, Page 5
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152MARRIAGE LAW Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 120, 14 February 1921, Page 5
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