Note 1299 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

For a concise and accurate account of the law of marriage as it stood under Charles I. see The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights (London, 1632), 51-115, 231 ff. Marriages on account of disparitas cultus were prohibited. "Amongst the hinderances of marriage note this also, that by Constitution of holy Church, marriage is forbidden betwixt persons of divers Religions, as Jews and Christian" (59). It does not appear, however, that such unions were invalid; nor is anything said of "mixed" marriages. There was no action, as in Germany, to compel the fulfilment of the sponsalia (54).