Sentences with phrase «against the marriage relation»

At common law, a spouse had two causes of action for offenses against the marriage relation: enticement or alienation of affections, and seduction or criminal conversation.

Not exact matches

The prohibition against marriage between close relations has reasons beyond any «moral» code, and certainly does not come from biblical standards in which such relationships seem to be common, if not celebrated.

The question before us is in effect whether, in the name of equality and the struggle against discrimination, we should suppress all references to sexual difference in relations between citizens and the state, beginning with the marriage ceremony and the family records that issue from this ceremony.

She played an instrumental role in Nova Scotia (and across Canada) in the last few years advocating against the accreditation of the law school at Trinity Western University, where students will be required to sign a document promising not to engage in sexual relations outside of a heterosexual marriage.