urth Decade. Cases MATRIMONIAL.
Case 1. Whether the marriage of a son or daughter, without or
against the parent's consent, may be accounted lawful 457
2. Whether marriage, lawfully made, may admit of any
cause of divorce, save only for the violation of the
marriage-bed, by fornication or adultery................ 460
3. Whether, after a lawful divorce for adultery, the inno-
cent party may marry again........
...... 464
4. Whether the authority of the father may reach so far,
as to command or compel the child, to dispose of
himself in marriage where he shall appoint.........
..... 468
5. Whether the marriage of cousins-german, that is, of
brother's or sister's children, be lawful...... ...... 470
6. Whether is it necessary or requisite there should be a
witnessed contract, or espousals of the parties to be
married, before the solemnization of the marriage?... 474
7. Whether there ought to be a prohibition and forbear.
ance of marriages and marriage duties, for some times
appointed...............
8. Whether it be necessary, that marriages should be cele-
brated by a Minister; and whether they may be va-
lid and lawful without him .......
...... 479
9. Whether there be any necessity or use of thrice pub-
lishing the contract of marriage in the congregation,
before the celebration of it; and whether it be fit,
that any dispensation should be granted for the for-
bearance of it............
....., 480
10. Whether marriages, once made, may be annulled and
utterly voided ; and, in what cases this may be done.. 482