A
transcript of the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act, 1907.
An Act to amend the Law relating to Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister. [
BE it
enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
1. No
marriage heretofore or hereafter contracted between a man and his deceased
wife’s sister, within the realm Or without, shall be deemed to have been or
shall be void or voidable, as a civil contract, by reason only of such
affinity: Provided always that no clergyman in holy orders of the Church of
England shall be liable to any suit, penalty, or censure, whether civil or
ecclesiastical, for anything done or omitted to be done by him in the
performance of the duties of his office to which suit, penalty, or censure he
would not have been liable if this Act had not been passed.
Provided also that when any minister of any church or chapel of the Church of
England shall refuse to perform such marriage service between any persons who,
but for such refusal, would be entitled to have the same service performed in
such church or chapel, such minister may permit any other clergyman in holy
orders in the Church of England, entitled to officiate within the diocese in
which such church or chapel is situate, to perform such marriage service in
such church or chapel.
Provided also that in case, before the passing of this Act, any such marriage
shall have been annulled, or either party thereto (after the marriage and
during the life of the other) shall have lawfully married another, it shall be
deemed to have become and to be void upon and after the day upon which it was
so annulled, or upon which either party thereto lawfully married another as
aforesaid.
2. No
right, title, estate or interest, whether in possession or expectancy, and
whether vested or contingent at the time of the passing of this Act, existing
in, to, or in respect of, any dignity, title of honour, or property, and no act
or thing lawfully done or omitted before the passing of this Act shall be
prejudicially affected nor shall any will be deemed to have been revoked by
reason of any marriage heretofore contracted as aforesaid being made valid by
this Act. And no claim by the Crown for duties leviable on or with reference to
death, and before the passing of this Act due and payable, and no payment,
commutation, composition, discharge, or settlement of account in respect of any
duties leviable on or with reference to death before the passing of this Act
duly made or given, shall be prejudicially affected by anything herein
contained.
Nothing in this Act shall affect the devolution or distribution of the real or
personal estate of any intestate, not being a party to the marriage, who at the
time of the passing of this Act shall be, and shall until his death continue to
be, a lunatic, so found by inquisition.
3.-(1)
Nothing in this Act shall remove wives’ sisters from the class of persons
adultery with whom constitutes a right, on the part of wives, to sue for
divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or the Matrimonial Causes
Act, 1857, it shall not be lawful for a man to marry the sister of his divorced
wife, or of his wife by whom he has been divorced, during the lifetime of such
wife.
4.
Nothing in this Act shall relieve a clergyman in holy orders of the Church of
England from any ecclesiastical censure, to which he would have been liable if
this Act had not been passed, by reason of his having contracted or hereafter
contracting a marriage with his deceased wife’s sister.
5. In
this Act the word "sister" shall include a sister of the half-blood.
6.
This Act may be cited as the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act, 1907.
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