Note 284 — Chapter XI · HISTORY OF SEPARATION AND DIVORCE UNDER ENGLISH AND ECCLESIASTICAL LAW (continued 2)
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5 and 6 W. IV., c. 54; also in Hammick, Marriage Law, 281. Compare Hansard's Parl. Debates, 3d series, XXXVIII, 203-7; XXX, 661, 662. In general, see Geary, op. cit., 10, 11, 32; Burn, Ecc. Law, II, 501c-501e; Hammick, op. cit., 32, 33, 23; Ernst, Marriage and Divorce, 183, 184; Luckock, Hist. of Marriage, 300-307; Jeaffreson, op. cit., II, 264-66; Bishop, Marriage, Divorce, and Separation, I, §§ 288, 289, 753; Tracts Issued by the Mar. Law Defence Union, II, 91-104.
The act extends to Ireland. "By the law of Scotland the distinction between void and voidable marriages was never recognized, all marriages within the prohibited degrees being void ab initio."—Hammick, op. cit., 33 n. a.