id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005197428 Lonergan, William I. (William Ignatius), 1884-1936. The shackles of wedlock 1930 .txt text/plain 10718 510 64 Unlike pagans and Jews, they are not even obliged to the prescriptions of the civil law for the validity of their marriages, since the civil law has no more right to regulate their marriages than it has to regulate Catholic marriages, both being Sacraments and hence beyond the jurisdiction of the State. Relatives by marriage in a direct line and collaterally to the second de- gree are also debarred from valid marriage. cache/_005197428.txt txt/_005197428.txt