Chapter VI: Marriage

1. Duty of minister to solemnise marriage between persons
legally competent--Unlawful solemnisation, when a
felony--Marriage, when void. 2. Original places for banns and
marriages--Churches of new parishes--Licences for banns and
marriages in chapels--Parishes having no regular services in
parish church--Where parish church is being rebuilt or
repaired--No reconsecration necessary where church is rebuilt or
enlarged and position of Holy Table altered. 3. Persons legally
competent to intermarry--Religion or absence of religion of the
parties no ground for refusal to solemnise marriage. 4.
_Minimum_ age--Consent of parents or guardians in case of
unions--Marriage without consent, in absence of notice--Marriage
below lawful age. 5. Marriage of lunatic or _non compos_, void.
6. Absence, unheard of, for seven years--Relief from punishment
for bigamy--Invalidity of remarriage. 7 Divorce abroad--Divorce
in England under Act of 1857--Remarriage of divorced persons. 8.
Marriage of foreigners--Requirements of laws of foreign
States--Precautions to be observed. 9. Prohibited degrees of
kindred and affinity. 10. Publication of banns--Time and
form--Seven days' notice--Publication and marriage without
notice and due inquiry--Publication where parties dwell in
different parishes or districts--Where one dwells in Scotland,
or in Ireland--What constitutes dwelling--Correct names to be
published--Status need not be published--Publication to be from
book and signed--Forbidding of banns. 11. Marriage, with consent
of minister, on registrar's certificate--Not permitted on
registrar's licence. 12. Marriage on licence of bishop or
Archbishop of Canterbury--Grant of bishop's licence--Previous
affidavit before surrogate--Duty of minister on production of
licence--Names in licence--Grant of licence a favour and not a
right. 13. Marriage, where and when to be solemnised--Priest or
deacon may marry--Penalty for solemnising marriage at improper
place or time. 14. Reading of service after marriage at a
registry office--Second solemnisation of marriage. 15. Fees for
banns, certificate of banns, and marriage. 16. Marriage register
books--Certificate of marriage. 17. Presumption of marriage of
persons coming to Holy Communion--Proof of no marriage--Validity
of marriage governed by law of place of solemnisation--Capacity
to contract marriage governed by law of domicile---Marriage
between British subjects in a foreign country or on board ship
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