Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court, 1835 If the conversations of a parent respecting the marriage of his minor daughter, uttered a week before the marriage, may be given in evidence to prove his consent, those uttered a month, or any other time, may also be proved; and if this be sufficient evidence upon which the clergyman, who violates a positive act of assembly, may escape its penalty, it is equivalent to the establishment of the prin ciple, that consent once given shall never be withdrawn, however abandoned the suitor may become; whatever the parent may learn, during the course of his courtship, of his unfitness; however he may remonstrate against the marriage; however he may declare the con clusions of his judgment, to aid that of a minor daughter: he has once consented, and his daughter must be the sacrifice. 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.