MARRIAGE OF COUSINS.
RELIGIOUS .BODY CANNOT OBJECT By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Feb. 13, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 12. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has finally disposed of the seven-year-old case, Despatie v. 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 a fourth degree. The Canadian Court held that the civil code of Quebec upheld the Papal law enacted by a Lateral! council in 1215, which declared such marriages invalid. Baron Moulton, in delivering Judgment, said there was complete religious liberty in Canada, and though a 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 religious body objected, and therefore the' appeal would be al-lowed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1921, Page 5
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149MARRIAGE OF COUSINS. Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1921, Page 5
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