Sentences with phrase «formal validity of a marriage»
Simonin v. Mallac may have stood, in the tradition of Compton v. Bearcroft — the case that established the validity of a Gretna Green marriage — for the proposition that the formal validity of a marriage is tested solely by the lex loci celebrationis.
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The law of marriage is governed by two sets of rules, one dealing with formal validity and the other with essential validity, or capacity to marry.