If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

Marriage is not a sacrament of the Christian Science church, but the church's by-laws require a legal, religious ceremony for marriage: " If a Christian Scientist is to be married, the ceremony shall be performed by a clergyman who is legally authorized.

If one member ran away or married into another household or died, the rest of family continued to be responsible for the tax obligation of the family unit.

In 1563, Elizabeth told an imperial envoy: " If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married ".

After marrying Mary Reed in a Methodist service in 1862, a Quaker encouraged him to express regret for this, to which Cannon replied, " If you mean that I am to get up in meeting and say that I am sorry I married Mary, I won't do it.

" If couples do not get married then their wages do not have to combine and the EITC in a way is " paying for " low-income couples not to marry.

If there is dancing at the celebrations after the wedding, the newly married couple typically open the dancing with their first dance.

If they were married before joining the society, their marriages essentially ended when they joined.

If the " victim " is unconscious when penetration occurs, he would not be consenting, but this might not be rape if there is a subsisting sexual relationship, e. g. the couple are married, and the other might reasonably believe that consent to intercourse existed by virtue of that relationship.

If she married, her husband then managed it.

# If the parties were married outside of New York and have never lived together as husband and wife in the state and the grounds for divorce did not occur in New York then, one spouse must presently be a resident of New York and have resided continuously in the state for at least two years prior to filing an action for divorce.

If a town were overcome by besieging troops, all women of priestly stock found in it are ineligible be married to priests or to remain married to priests, but if they had witnesses, even a slave, or even a bondswoman, these may be believed.

If she were the same Godiva who appears in the history of Ely Abbey, the Liber Eliensis, written at the end of the 12th century, then she was a widow when Leofric married her.

* " If married, divorced him and married

If he had married Silvia during the reign of his grandfather, King Gustaf VI Adolf, he would have lost his position as heir-apparent to the Swedish throne.

If the father was impressed and approved of the marriage, the man and woman would exchange gifts of horses and clothing and were considered married.

Powell said that the man told him: " If I had the money to go, I wouldn't stay in this country … I have three children, all of them been through grammar school and two of them married now, with family.

She was to write later, " If I had not married I should not have learned the quick enrichment of sentences that one gets in conversation ; had I not been widowed I should not have found the detachment of mind, the leisure for observation necessary to give insight into character, to express and interpret it.

* If only children residing in legally married stepfamilies are included, 23 % of U. S. children would be designated as living in a stepfamily ; when children are included who live with a cohabiting parent, the figure rises to 30 %.

: If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife.

: If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver.

If you want to get married and you're a man, marry a woman.

If Blanche had been honest, she would have yelled, slammed at least a couple of doors, and thrown a few little, valueless things.

If that picture gets around and I find out you had anything to do with it, I'm going to send a couple of my boys around to see you ''.

If there is an uneven number of couples dancing, the bottom-most couple will wait out the first time through the dance.

If the sets are short to medium length the caller will often try to run the dance until each couple has danced with every other couple both as a 1 and a 2 and returned to where they started.

If an unmarried couple change residence to different countries, then the local law on where the couple is last domiciled is applied to them.

In ‘ A Modern Herbal ’, Mrs Grieves says “ A rosemary branch, richly gilded and tied with silken ribands of all colours, was also presented to wedding guests, as a symbol of love and loyalty .” If a young person would tap another with a rosemary sprig and if the sprig contained an open flower, it was said that the couple would fall in love.

If the couple has divorced fewer than three times ( meaning it is not a final divorce ) the wife also receives spousal support for three menstrual cycles after the divorce, until it can be determined whether she is pregnant.

If that happens, Franks said, “... the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we ’ ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy .” Franks then offered “ in a practical sense ” what he thinks would happen in the aftermath of such an attack.

If the constraints don't couple the variables too tightly, a relatively simple attack is to change the variables so that constraints are unconditionally satisfied.

If an Australian de facto couple moves out of a state, they do not take the state with them and the new federal law is tied to the territorial limits of a state.

If crossover occurs once, then on average ( 4²² ) ² = 309x10 < sup > 24 </ sup > genetically different zygotes are possible for every couple, not considering that crossover events can take place at most points along each chromosome.

If most of the figures are danced between facing couples across the set, as in the 19th century quadrille and dances derived from it, the couple opposite the first is the " second couple ".

If the dance floor is not crowded and the couple is afforded more space, such as during a competitive event, the dancers may move the slot around the floor more liberally.

If those things were to change or dissipate the couple may remain romantically linked but often the collar will be removed.

" If I say so myself I've saved a couple of sure flops ," he said.

If a clutch is lost early in incubation, the cranes may be able to lay another one within a couple of weeks.

" If we do not pay attention and we do not take measures to stop Chinese mingling with English, Chinese will no longer be a pure language in a couple of years.

" If Iraqis actually fight, clearly it's going to be brutal, dangerous work and we could take, bluntly, a couple to 3, 000 casualties "

If both members of the couple have prior children, the children are stepbrothers and stepsisters to one another.