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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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1014 15 GEO. 2, CAP. 30, MARRIAGE OF LUNATICS.
STATUTES
Made at WESTMINSTER, Anno Regni GEOEGII II. decimo quinto
A. D. 1742.
CAP. XXX.
An Act to prevent the Marriage of Lunaticks.
Whereas Persons who have the Misfortune to become Luna-
ticks, may, by reason of such their Disorder, be liable to be
surprised into unsuitable Marriages, which may be of perni-
cious Consequence, and a great Misfortune to their Families:
Wherefore, for preventing the same, and the ill Consequence
thereof. Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament as-
sembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and
after the twenty-fourth Day of June. in the Year of Our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and forty-two, in case any Per-
son who now is, or at any Time hereafter shall be found a
Lunatick, by any Inquisition taken or to be taken by virtue of
a Commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain; or any
Lunatick or Person under a Phrenzy, whose Person and Estate
by virtue of any Act of Parliament, now are, or hereafter shall
be committed to the Care and Custody of particular Trustees,
shall marry before he or she shall be declared of sane Mind by
the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, the Lord Keeper
or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of Great Britain
for the Time being, or such Trustees as aforesaid, or the
major Part of them respectively; every such Marriage shall
be, and is hereby declared to be null and void to all Intents
and Purposes whatsoever.
758 ""This Statute is said to have been introduced by Mr. Pulteney
to prevent Mr. Newport, the natural son of the Earl of Bradford (to
whom he was next in remainder), from marrying, and it is thence some-
times called the Bradford Act; see Corn. Dig. Idiot, D. 1. The mischief
intended to be remedied by it was the difficulty of proving the precise
state of a lunatic's mind at the time of marriage. And therefore the
existence of a commission of lunacy against a person is a bar to his con-

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