text:  How can a court _ecclesiastical_ which from its very constitution and formula of marriage which it receives and sanctions--that marriage is a Divine institution that man shall not put asunder those by this matrimony made one--I ask how can such a court deal with cases where the people have not been put together by the only bond of matrimony which the church can allow? But these are painful subjects and I feel myself wading in deeper water than will be good for one who can't swim without corks though he be _levior cortice_; and lighter than cork too will be the obligation on the man's side who has taken trusting woman to one of these registry houses leaped over a broomstick and called it a marriage