The Weekly Notes Volume 9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...marriage with a Mr. ODgley, who at the time of the death of Mr. Alison was vice-consul at Teheran. The facts were, that when Mr. Alison died the petitioner was, and was known to be, enceinte by him, but it was shortly afterwards proposed that Mr. Ongley 6hould marry her, and application was made successively to two priests of the Armenian church, into which the petitioner, when an infant, had been baptized, and of which she stated that she had since remained a member, to perform the ceremony. But the priests both declined on the ground that by a law of the Armenian church, the existence of which law was proved, no pregnant woman could contract a valid marriage. A Roman Catholic priest at Teheran was then applied to, and he after obtaining, by telegraph, a dispensation from his ecclesiastical superior, as on the ground that one of tho parties only was a member of the Roman church, Mr. Ongley being, as was stated, a member of tho Church of England, performed the ceremony of marriage between them in a private house. Tho ground for the suggestion that tho petitioner was a Roman Catholic was, that her father was an Italian, who had married her mother, an Armenian Christian, and had died before the petitioner's birth, and that sho had been confessed by tho Roman Catholic priest before the marriage ceremony was performed. It was in evidence that by the law of Persia the marriages of Christians were held good if valid according to the law of the particular denomination to which tho parties belonged. The chief clerk had found that there was a good marriage, and the motion was to vary his certificate in that respect. W. Pearson, Q.C, and Benshaw, for tho petitioner, contended that the marriage was invalid both as an English and as an Armenian marriage. Biggins, Q.C, ...