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One of a Christian denomination The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints in the United States followers of Joseph Smith who professed to have found an addition to the Bible engraved on golden plates called the Book of Mormon first published in 1830 The Mormons believe in polygamy and their hierarchy of apostles etc has control of civil and religious matters...
Mormonism
The doctrine system and practices of the Mormons...
Latter day saint
A Mormon the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons...
mandrill
A large West African baboon Papio sphinx syn Mandrillus sphinx formerly Cynocephalus mormon syn Papio mormon The adult male has on the sides of the nose large naked grooved swellings conspicuously striped with blue and red It is an endangered species...
Mormondom
The country inhabited by the Mormons the Mormon people...
Mormonite
A Mormon...
Puffin
An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica allied to the auks and having a short thick swollen beak whence the name called also bottle nose cockandy coulterneb marrot mormon pope and sea parrot...
Sego
A liliaceous plant Calochortus Nuttallii of Western North America and its edible bulb so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
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