nullity of marriage

The greater Part of its decisions concern the nullity of marriage.

Nullity of marriage must be carefully distinguished from divorce.

The Roman Rota handles normal judicial appeals, the most numerous being those that concern alleged nullity of marriage.

Its jurisdiction covers applications for declarations of the validity or nullity of marriages, divorces, residence, contact, maintenance, child support and property issues.

The revised concordat regulated the conditions under which civil effects are accorded to church marriages and to ecclesiastical declarations of nullity of marriages.

Now a Family Court can grant a decree of nullity of marriage or divorce at the first instance and the same would become final if no appeal is preferred within the period prescribed for the same.

As regards the marriage discipline and the grounds for decree of nullity of marriages, there are no material differences between the canon law of the Syrian Catholics and that of the Latin Catholics.

After being sent to Oxford to obtain opinions from the university in the king's favour, he accompanied Cranmer to Dunstable as one of the counsel on the king's side, when the archbishop pronounced the final sentence of nullity of marriage.

And as regards declaration of nullity of marriage the Church could do the same as is evident from the book on the "Anthropology of the Syrian Christians" by Rao Bhadur L. K. Ananthakrishna Ayyar.

Dignitas Connubii (Instruction to be Observed by Diocesan and Interdiocesan Tribunals in Handling Causes of the Nullity of Marriage), Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2005.

In petitions of divorce, or for declaration of nullity of marriage, the Queen's Proctor may, under direction of the Attorney General, intervene in the suit for the purpose of arguing any question that the court deems expedient to have argued.

If one goes through the entire statutory law of England from 1857 to 1925, it can be seen that the civil law had not specified any ground for declaration of nullity of marriage and those grounds remained the same as those provided under the laws of the Church.

In 1537 he was present at the christening of Prince Edward and the funeral of Jane Seymour; in 1538 he was at the reception of Anne of Cleves, the declaration of whose nullity of marriage he afterwards signed.

On 25 September 1613, and supported by the king, Essex obtained a decree of nullity of marriage against her husband, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and three months later, on 26 December, got her wish and married Carr.

The 1976 Act and the 1983 Acts were further developed by the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, which also gave powers to the court in relation to the transfer of certain tenancies upon a decree of divorce, of nullity of marriage or of judicial separation.

On 30 March 1929 at All Saints Cathedral Cairo, he married Aetheldreda Luxton, daughter of Mr and Mrs Luxton Loney, of Ocean Avenue, Edgecliff In 1931 he petitioned the High Court for nullity of marriage.

In the situation that a marriage is void or voidable, any legitimately interested party (usually one of the parties to the marriage) can seek a declarator of nullity of marriage from the Court of Session, which will acknowledge that their marriage is void and, in effect, never existed.