The Law Library Volume 86 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTE TO J 129. The Canonists recognised three kinds of affinity, viz., that existing between each of a married couple and his or her blood relations, and 1. The blood relations of the other. 2. The affi.nes of the other. r . ..*3. The affines of the affines of the other. L ixxx11J To illustrate this-- 1. My brother's wife is the affinis of myselff and, of course, of my brothers, sisters, &c. Here is affinity of the first kind. 2. If on tho death of my brother, his widow (my sister-in-law) marries again, her husband becomes the affinis of myself. This is affinity of the second kind, there being no connection by blood between my sister-inlaw and me. 3. If now my sister-in-law dies, and her second husband re-marries, his new wife becomes the affinis of myself. The affinity in this case is of the third kind, and subsists solely by virtue of the affinity between me and the husband of my deceased brother's wife, which again arose from the affinity existing between her and myself. Previous to the holding of the third Council of Latran, affinity of the second and third kind was, as much as that of the first, an impediment to marriage; but at that council the Canon law was in this respect altered. (p) NOTE TO J 130. Ignominy. Infamy of character is contracted by persons against whom judgment has been recorded in a prosecution for felony and certain other offences.(j) The consequences of this stigma upon the character were to render the person inadmissible, cither as a juror or a witness;(r) but the disability to give evidence no longer exists. (s) NOTE TO 3 137. Object Of A Rigiit. The author elsewhere(f) puts the substance of this section thus: " A right is nothing more than a possibility of acting. The subject of a right is that to which...