Adultery
See also this scene in "All's Well that Ends Well" http://shakespeare.mit.edu/allswell/allswell.4.3.html
"He says that he will only marry her after she has borne his child and wears his family ring"
This play was written when the Bastard Laws were enacted. Shakespeare had a lot to say about this period in England's history.
See this Nova Scotia legislation from the 70's.
DIVORCE A VINCULO MATRIMONII -- GROUNDS FOR
"He says that he will only marry her after she has borne his child and wears his family ring"
This play was written when the Bastard Laws were enacted. Shakespeare had a lot to say about this period in England's history.
See this Nova Scotia legislation from the 70's.
DIVORCE A VINCULO MATRIMONII -- GROUNDS FOR
38 The following sections of an Act made and passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for Regulating Marriage and Divorce, and for Preventing and Punishing Incest, Adultery and Fornication, are unrepealed, that is to say:
Section 9, in the following words: "The causes for divorce from the bound of matrimony and of dissolving and annulling marriage are and shall be, frigidity or impotence, adultery and consanguinity within the degrees prohibited in and by an Act of Parliament, made in the thirty-second year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act for Marriages to stand, notwithstanding pre-contracts, and no other causes whatsoever."
Section 10, in the following words: "Provided, always, that in case of a sentence or divorce from the bond of matrimony or marriage for the cause of adultery, the issue of such marriage shall not in any case be bastardized, or in any way prejudiced or affected with any disability thereby".
R.S., c.63, s.37.
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