BRACERS Record Detail for 11841
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Deceased wife's sister law repealed about 50 yrs ago.
BR TO UNIDENTIFIED, 24 MAY 1952
BRACERS 11841. ALD. McMaster. Russell 15 (1995): 48
Edited by K. Blackwell
I cannot answer your questions with precision. The law against marrying one’s deceased wife’s sister is in the Bible3 and was the law of all Christian countries. It was repealed in England about fifty years ago, but I do not know the exact date.4
Yours truly
- 1[document] Published in K. Blackwell, “Two Days in the Dictation of Bertrand Russell”, Russell 15 (1995): 37–52 (at 48).
- 2
Madam Unidentified.
- 3
Bible Leviticus 20: 21. BR notes to an unnamed correspondent that “the contrary command is in Deuteronomy xxv: 5” (RA1 750, 23 Dec. 1953).
- 4
I do not know the exact date. The Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Act was passed in 1907.