2

3

Form and beremony as the

Parties

may

all

fit to adopt" and

the Marriage so solemnized is unquestionably legal Wee

Section XXIV.)

This Ordinance however, which is entitled "An Ordinanc

the

for certain Marriages in the Colony of Stongstong" and is principally framed upon Imperial Act commonly called Sord John Russell's Art - (6 and 7 Will. IV.

c. 35) expressly provides that the validity of Marriage solemnized in the Colony by "Persons in Stoly orders shall not be affected_

thereby (Sec. XX 11.) -

This

question therefore

arises: what formalities, if any,

are

the

required to be observed in of Marriages solemnized

case

in the

manner

by Seo: XX111 ?

The

referred to

answer appears to

me to be that inasmuch as the Imperial Marriage Acts

are not in force in British bolonies (Forsyth's

MALO

Constitutional Law pr. 19)-

ow

-the

sow of the bolony (apart from

the local Ordinance) would

seem to be the

existed in

in

same

it

England before the

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