Patrician and plebeian marriages
Priestly connections in the Middle Ages
Disabilities in Germany—Prohibition of marriages without sufficient means
Invalidity of Protestant marriages in France
Of marriages celebrated by Nonconformist ministers in England
Of some marriages celebrated by priests in Ireland
Of purely religious marriages in some continental countries
Invalidities created by differences of belief
By differences of race or colour
Civil Marriage
In French law—Its rapid spread
Hostility of the Catholic Church
Character of civil marriage in England
In Germany, Italy, and Switzerland
In Scandinavian countries, Russia, Roumania
Divorce
Arguments for and against its permission
The Council of Trent absolutely condemned it
Catholicism admits many grounds of nullity
Divorce of Napoleon from Josephine
Divorce established in France on the widest system in 1792
Regulated and restricted by the Civil Code
Abolished in 1816, but retained in Belgium, the Rhenish Provinces, and Baden
Admitted in Austria for non-Catholics
Its increasing popularity in France
The Protestant and Greek Churches never wholly condemned it
Absurdity and injustice of the English system of granting it
Compared with Australian legislation
Examination of the effects of the Act
Divorce laws not a cause of national demoralisation
Their different types in Europe—Statistics of divorces
The natural right to marriage accompanies the secularisation of marriage
Restrictions only justified by grave dangers
Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister
Archaic element in modern Socialism
Condemnation of loans at interest
Absorption of individual rights by the State
The Sabbatical and Jubilee years of the Hebrews
Common property in the early Church
Socialistic tendencies of the Fathers
Influence of the monasteries—Mediæval organisation of industry