Show A remarkable RULING 10 THI THE peculiar rulings of courts is sometimes amazing in utah we have become accustomed to them but bat now and then a decision from the bench in some other part of the union astonishes the bar as well as the puo pub I 1 lie I 1 the supreme court of pennsylvania has enunciated the singular doctrine that sunday marriages in that state are invalid pennsylvania law declares null and void contracts executed on the sabbath day marriage is a civil contract and therefore alic court says marriages solemnized on sunday are illegal this must be rather discomforting to a great many good people in ik the key atone state no doubt a very large number of families are the result of sunday marriages lor for the religious nature of matrimony has not ceased to be recognized and a shered sacred day has been considered proper for a sacred deed it if sunday marriages I 1 are void the offspring of those marriages must be illegitimate marriages marriage Marria geIs Is a civil contract under the old english common compoli law which forms the basis of american jurisprudence I 1 and it is ig also a religious ceremony Y and it would seem that unless there is special legislation forbidding them sunday marria marriages es areas are as valid as those performed any other day in the week at least cothey have always been regarded both in england and america however we suppose the people of pennsylvania wll will guard against trouble on this score va 11 the future and until some ather court makes a higher guess at the meaning of the law or tae present couro reverses its own ruling as courts sometimes do thus refuting the notion of their infallibility the folks in the quaker state will care tally fally avoid breaking the sabbath by entering into the holy estate of matrimony |