THE ROMAN CHURCH AND THE ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will the writer of the article in this week's Spectator give a plain answer to this plain question : What relief, if any, is afforded by English law to a young girl coerced by undue influence of a grave nature into marriage with a man whom she detests ?—I am, Sir, &c., A CONSTANT READER.
[The law, of course, provides for no relief so long as the husband gives her no justification for divorce or separation. We have to rely upon a girl of marriageable age not making public vows against her will and conscience. If a wife, how- ever, has lived with her husband for twenty-five years and has had children we are driven to presume that " detestation " for her husband is a convenient after-thought and certainly not a ground upon which those who believe in the indis- solubility of marriage should grant an annulment.—En. Spectator.]
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