Sentences with phrase «merely civil marriage»

Not exact matches

If this is merely a question of the «definition» of marriage in a semantic sense, I see civil marriage as a different animal than holy matrimony.

How can you equate racially segregated schooling with marriage vs civil partnerships, and how would argue for your analogy rather than merely asserting it?

courts, and until the time of James I, it was punished through the instrumentality of those tribunals not merely because ecclesiastical rights had been violated, but because upon the separation of the ecclesiastical courts from the civil the ecclesiastical were supposed to be the most appropriate for the trial of matrimonial causes and offences against the rights of marriage, just as they were for testamentary causes and the settlement of the estates of deceased persons.