William Hallett v. Sidney E. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions

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1. ““In order to constitute a valid marriage in the Spanish colonies, all that was necessary was that there should be consent joined with the will to marry. “The Council of Trent, in 1563,' required that marriage should be celebrated before the parish or other priest, or by license of the ordinary and before two or three witnesses. This decree was adopted by the king of Spain in his European dominions, but not extended to the colonies, in which the rule above mentioned, established by the Partidas, was permitted to remain unchanged.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Gabaldon's Estate

2. “‘ ‘ But it was not within the power of an ecclesiastical decree, proprio vigore, to affect the status or civil relations of persons. These could only be affected by the supreme civil power. The church might punish by her censures those who disregarded her ordinances; but, until the decree of the council was adopted and confirmed by the civil power, the offspring of a clandestine marriage, which was ecclesiastically void, would be held as canonically legitimate. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Charrier v. State