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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