Excerpt from The Law of Marriage and Family Relations: A Manual of Practical Law This Law-Book is one of a series, intended as well for laymen as for the profession. For the use of legal Practitioners, all the usual authorities have been always cited, except where a recent judgment of a Court of Appeal reviews the previous decisions, and then it has been thought safe to omit a reference to the earlier cases. On substantive law directly in point, i.e., Marriage and Divorce, the author has endeavoured to make this Manual an exhaustive treatise; but where the matter discussed is not of direct interest, and is too wide for short treatment, e.g., marriage settlements, the author has summarised or quoted and cited the best text-books. Procedure, being outside the object of this series, is not treated at length; besides, procedure in the Divorce Court is exhaustively treated in the books on Divorce Practice by Mr. W. J. Dixon, and Messrs. Browne and L. D. Powles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.