Without specific assignment, senior justices of the peace and senior municipal judges may perform routine ministerial acts, including
the solemnization of marriages, subject to limitations in the jurisdiction in which they are performed, if any, and the administering of oaths, but shall not admit to bail any person accused of a crime.
Solemnization of marriage is an example where Canadian institutions recognize status acquired abroad, even though most marriage laws around the world are discriminatory if seen through 21st - century Canadian eyes.
It relates to
the solemnization of marriage, which is within provincial jurisdiction.
Not exact matches
Why is it religious and sectarian when an elementary school teacher prays in front
of a class room
of children, but a mere nonreligious
solemnization when a President stands in front
of the nation and swears, on a Bible, so help him God, to carry out the office to which he has been entrusted?
I suppose that Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor might say that such use
of the Bible and prayer are merely «
solemnizations» bereft
of religious or sectarian content.
Third, the details
of the
solemnization must be recorded on the license and returned to the county clerk.