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Jayson
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Just a quick question
« on: Wednesday 19 August 09 10:10 UTC (UK) »
Was it against the law in the 1660s for a husband to go on to marry his deceased wife's sister?

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Re: Just a quick question
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 19 August 09 10:38 UTC (UK) »
The Act of Parliament forbidding it was 1835 http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1430
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Re: Just a quick question
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 19 August 09 11:52 UTC (UK) »
The Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907  was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, allowing a man, if his wife had died, to marry her sister.

Previously, it was forbidden for a man to marry the sister of his deceased wife. This prohibition derived from a doctrine of Canon (chruch) Law whereby those who were connected by marriage were regarded as being related to each other in a way which made marriage between them improper. Hence the relationship brother / sister  / mother  /father in law


it wasnt until 1921 that a woman could marry her dead husbands brother,  under the Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage Act,
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Re: Just a quick question
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 19 August 09 14:20 UTC (UK) »
Briefly before 1835 it was a violation of Canon Law, and after the 1835 Act a violation of Civil Law.

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