Note 1410 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
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The act of 26 Geo. II., c. 33. For the text, see Pickering's Statutes at Large, XXI, 124-30; Evans, Statutes, I, 155-60. For analysis and discussion of its provisions see Burn (R.), Ecclesiastical Laws, II, 433; Hammick, Marriage Law, 12-15; Geary, Marriage and Family Relations, 9, 12-15; Burn (J. S.), Parish Registers, 32, 33; Blackstone, Commentaries, I, 438, 440; IV, 163; Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., I, 531-40; idem, Democracy and Liberty, II, 174, 176 ff.; Taswell-Langmead, Eng. Const. Hist., 750; Campbell, Chancellors, VI, 262; May, Const. Hist., II, 362; Friedberg, Geschichte der Civilehe, 16, 17; idem, Eheschliessung, 355-58; Oppenheim, "Ueber Einführung der Civil-Ehe in Eng.," ZKR., I, 9-11.