Catherine testified that her marriage to Arthur was never consummated, as also according to canon law, a marriage was not valid until consummated.

In England, clergy performed many clandestine marriages, such as so-called Fleet Marriage, which were held legally valid ; and in Scotland, unsolemnized common-law marriage was still valid.

* 1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.

Catherine claimed that her marriage to Arthur was never consummated, and so was not a valid marriage.

In early 1533, Henry married Anne Boleyn, who was pregnant with his child, and in May Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, formally declared the marriage with Catherine void, and the marriage to Anne valid.

Mary's first Parliament, which assembled in early October 1553, declared the marriage of her parents valid, and abolished Edward's religious laws.

Like monogamy, the term is often used in a de facto sense, applying regardless of whether the relationships are recognized by the state ( see marriage for a discussion on the extent to which states can and do recognize potentially and actually polygamous forms as valid ).

For example, the Roman Catholic Church believes that marriage is a sacrament and a valid marriage between two baptized persons cannot be broken by any other means than death.

Pope John Paul II felt that, “ de facto free unions, i. e., those unions without any publicly recognized institutional bond, are an increasing concern .” As for the Jewish perspective, “ For example, normative Judaism forcefully rejects the claim that never marrying is an equally valid lifestyle to marriage.

Courts in New York, North Carolina, and Virginia have ruled that, under applicable state law, ULC ministers are not authorized to solemnize marriages and a marriage at which a ULC minister officiated therefore is not valid.

According to Cicero the marriage caused a semi-scandal as Brutus failed to state a valid reason for his divorce from Claudia other than he wished to marry Porcia.

The Church would not recognise the marriage of a divorced woman with a living ex-husband as valid.

* The official Roman Catholic decree " Tametsi " stipulates that for a marriage to be valid, consent ( the essence of marriage ) as expressed in the vows has to be given publicly before witnesses, one of whom has to be the parish priest.

On 23 May 1533 Thomas Cranmer declared Henry and Catherine's marriage null and void ; five days later, he declared Henry and Anne's marriage to be good and valid.

Five days later, on 28 May 1533, Cranmer declared the marriage of Henry and Anne to be good and valid.

Soter is known for declaring that marriage was valid only as a sacrament blessed by a priest and he also formally inaugurated Easter as an annual festival in Rome.

Only nine U. S. states and the District of Columbia still permit this irregular form of marriage ; but common law marriages are otherwise valid and recognised by and in all jurisdictions whose rules of comity mandate the recognition of any marriage that was legally formed in the jurisdiction where it was contracted.

Denominations that do not accept infant baptism as valid generally require those who join them, after being baptized as infants elsewhere, to be " rebaptized ," or rather to be baptized for the first time.

Oneness believers believe that for water baptism to be valid, one must be baptized in the name of Jesus, rather than the mainstream baptismal formula in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

It explicitly laid out that non-Catholics, including baptized ones, were not bound by Catholic canon law for marriage, and therefore could contract valid and binding marriages without compliance.

The sealing power is the authority that allows a living person to be baptized by proxy for a dead person so that ordinance is valid in the spirit world.

Jews and Christians accept as valid and binding many of the same moral principles taught in the Torah.

Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Roman Catholics, who together constitute the majority of Christians, hold that the consecrated elements in a valid celebration of the Eucharist indeed become the body and blood of Christ.

Christianity is based in Judaism and because of this, teachings from Judaism regarding magic were held as valid by early Christians.

Most Christians belong to denominations that recognize church history as at least partially inspired by the Holy Spirit, so they tend to see the formula as valid even if not spoken by Jesus himself.

The Catholic Church teaches that only corporate bodies of Christians led by bishops with valid Holy Orders can be recognized as " churches " in the proper sense.

Many modern day Christians, including many Catholics and some liberal Protestants, have developed a view of the New Testament as an extended covenant ; They believe that Jews are still in a valid relationship with God, and that Jews can avoid damnation and earn a heavenly reward.

The Muslim family law ( marriage, gifts, inheritance, adoption and a few other civil laws are under the purview of personal laws in India-they are different for Christians, Muslims and Hindus ) allows the husband to do this and not the wife: the husband just needs to say the word Talaq ( meaning divorce ) three times before two witnesses for a valid divorce.

Unlike many fundamentalist Christians, and despite her own strict Catholic upbringing as recounted in her book, after receiving her near-death experience, Eadie refers to God as " he " instead of " He " and insists that all religions are necessary for each person, claiming that each religion is necessary for each person because of their different levels of spiritual enlightenment, contrary to the views shared by many Christians worldwide that only Christianity is the one true valid religion.

Another view, for example, is that the biblical text Gen. 1: 28 " Be fruitful and multiply ," is really not a command but a blessing formula and that while there are many factors to consider as far as people's motives for remaining childless, there are many valid reasons, including dedicating one's time to demanding but good causes, why Christians may choose to remain childless for a short time or a lifetime.

Special weight was attributed to a Jew's oath, which was valid against that of twelve Christians.

Non-evangelical Christians may also consider these roles, and others, active and valid, but the term " fivefold ministry " is particularly associated with Pentecostal beliefs.

Special weight was attributed to a Jew's oath, which was valid against that of 12 Christians, because they represented the King of England in financial matters.

While thus accepting as valid the Anaphora of Addai and Mari even when the Words of Institution are not explicitly spoken, the document of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity " warmly invites " an Assyrian priest celebrating the Eucharist when Chaldean Christians are participating to insert the Words of Institution in that circumstance, as permitted by the Assyrian Church itself.

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

A valid American driving license is accepted in all countries except Portugal, Spain, Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.

If the direct-sum decomposition ( A ) is valid, how can we get hold of the projections Af associated with the decomposition??

If T is a linear operator on an arbitrary vector space and if there is a monic polynomial P such that Af, then parts ( A ) and ( B ) of Theorem 12 are valid for T with the proof which we gave.

In general, it appears that trustees and board members attempt to represent the public interest in their administration of educational policy, and this is made easier by the fact that the dominant values of the society are middle-class values, which are generally thought to be valid for the entire society.

There is only one sense in which it is valid to talk about Hardy's development: he did develop toward a more consistent and more effective control of that tone which we recognize as uniquely his.

-- On the basis of a differentiability assumption in function space, it is possible to prove that, for materials having the property that the stress is given by a functional of the history of the deformation gradients, the classical theory of infinitesimal viscoelasticity is valid when the deformation has been infinitesimal for all times in the past.

As was noted earlier, it is important that in valid, objective study of this sort of communication, the interested sitter should be separated from the sensitive.

This is the only valid, and extenuating, argument that may be advanced in defense of the reprehensible attitude of the common wine waiter.

Each viewpoint is valid if it is organically related to the other.

The assumption that Altaic is a valid family, but only consists of Japonic, Korean and Tungusic, appears to be restricted to Unger ( 1990 ).

The author's name " indicates the status of the discourse within a society and culture ", and at one time was used as an anchor for interpreting a text, a practice which Barthes would argue is not a particularly relevant or valid endeavor.

As for the term " Compositae ", more ancient but still valid, it obviously makes reference to the fact that the family is one of the few angiosperms that have composite flowers.

Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.

In propositional logic, associativity is a valid rule of replacement for expressions in logical proofs.

While it would be rash to assert positively that no existing gems were the work of Gnostics, there is no valid reason for attributing any or all of them to such an origin.

It is unlikely that the term " democracy " was coined by its detractors who rejected the possibility of a valid " demarchy ", as the word " demarchy " already existed and had the meaning of mayor or municipal.