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 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. 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. 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.