Note 1024 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL
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The case is given in 10 Clark and Finnelly, Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, 534-907. The text of the opinion of the English judges may also be found in Stephens, Laws of the Clergy, I, 675-94. It was ably refuted by Sir John Stoddart in his Observations on the Opinion and his Letter to Lord Brougham (both London, 1844).