Excerpt from Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister: Letters in Favour of a Repeal of the Law Which Prohibits Marriage With the Sister of a Deceased Wife<br><br>In the midst of my always pressing work in this immense Parish, I can only give a hasty and brief view of' my opinion on the subject of your Letter, viz. The Marriage with a deceased Wife's Sister still my view is, to me, clear and decided.<br><br>I. I assume that, in point of nearness, the relation ship of a Brother to his deceased brother's Widow, is the same as that of a man to his deceased Wife's Sister. Two Brothers are successively married to the same Woman, in the one case; and the same man to two Sisters in succession, in the second.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.