A Report of the Case of Horner Against Liddiard Upon the Question of What Consent Is Necessary to the Marriage of Illegitimate Minors; Determined on ... Scott, Chancellor with an Introductory - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1800 Excerpt: ... bestowed by a solemn decree in the assembly of the people; and even then it was not valid, unless it was confirmed in a subsequent assembly composed of at least fix thousand members. The votes were to be given secretly, and other forms were observed to prevent improper influence, and that so high an honour might not be conferred without great deliberation. Nor was even this sufficient, for the question of merit was still open to investigation; any man might institute a suit against the new citizen, and if it was decided that he had not deserved such a favour, the grant was pronounced void, as being contrary to law The attention of a state, which was mar-4. Roman tial from its origin, and whose principal ob-,. e ject was conquest, would necessarily be direc-raiment ted to the surest and most effectual means of riband procuring an extensive population. Accord-of edi ingly, laws for the encouragement and re-prom the gulation of marriage are to be traced from tfonof Rome. Deiqosth. against Ntsera, p. 530. A. D 4 the the foundation of Rome P, during the regal government, and in the earliest periods of the republic. Of the lawless vagabonds, who composed the first inhabitants of that city, one hundred only could boast of a legitimate birth, and they were honourably distingui shed by the title and prerogatives of patricians i. The despotic sovereignty of every father of a family, and the power, without controul or responsibility, which he exercised over the lives, the property, and the liberty, of his wife, his children, and his domestics, established by Romulus, may be considered as an inducement, held out by a politic legislator, to dispose a wild and barbarous people to submit to the restraints of domestic society. In the reign of Numa, the same motives occas...

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