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Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]
The social status of women was so tied to marriage that when women were granted the right to vote in parliamentary elections in 1918, there were proposals to exclude spinsters because they had “failed to please or attract mates.” [8] The status of an unmarried woman was thus inferior to that of a married woman, as Lydia (16), newly married ...
The ecclesiastical law says again that no son is to have the patrimony but the eldest born to the father by the married wife. The law of Howel, however, adjudges it to the younger son as well as to the oldest, and decides that the sin of the father, or his illegal act, is not to be brought against the son as to lus patrimony.
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and between them and their in-laws. [1]
Patrimony, or property, the total of all personal and real entitlements, including movable and immovable property, belonging to a real person or a juristic person Patrimony, or inheritance , a right or estate inherited from one's father, or other ancestor though the male line
Ancient physicians believed that a woman was liable to get very sick if she was deprived of sexual activity and it could even lead to a woman getting "hysteric uterine constriction". [58] Even legislation passed during the rule of Augustus required widows and widowers to remarry to inherit from people outside of their immediate family. [58]
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.
In the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), celestial (or eternal) marriage is a covenant between a man, a woman, and God performed by a priesthood authority in a temple of the church. [65] Celestial marriage is intended to continue forever into the afterlife if the man and woman do not break their ...