Figures like Martin Luther and John Calvin recognized marriage as a civil matter, a worldly affair, and not under the aegis of the church.

像马丁·路德和约翰·加尔文等人，认为婚姻是民事问题，一个俗世的事务，不需要在教会的庇护下结婚。

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Domestic procedure originates in German in civil law. The procedure of the marriage affair has its specialized provisions different from the common civil procedure in German.

大陆法系的家事审判程序制度最早产生于德国，在其民诉法中将婚姻事件和禁治产事件专门规定适用不同于审理普通民事案件的程序。

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The principle of affair alteration is an important principle of theories of civil law. It is set up steadily, compatible with commodity economy.

情事变更原则是国外民法理论中的一项重要原则，它是适应情事复杂多变的商品经济而逐步确立起来的民商事法律原则。

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He may be beaten to it: on February 16th Susan Webber Wright, the federal judge in the Paula Jones case, said she would explore imposing civil sanctions on Mr Clinton for misleading testimony in that case about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

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If the President were not involved, if an ordinary citizen were the subject of the inquiry, no serious consideration would be given to a criminal prosecution arising from alleged misconduct in discovery in the Jones civil case having to do with an alleged coverup of a private sexual affair with another woman or the follow-on testimony before the grand jury.

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Against the advice of the defence ministry's top civil servant, ministers sent the scientist to undergo a grilling by a parliamentary inquiry into the affair, at which he claimed not to recognise the reporter's words as having come from his briefing.

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