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15

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prior to the issue

to the issue of the certificate, the clergymen

who performed the

ceremony

A vas

F

doubt

having procured the certificate,

Knowledge

are

¿

and the same.

and

acquiescence.

necessary

to render a

marriage

null

if performed

in

any

guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to punishment under section 31 of the Ordinance, but to make the marriage void it would have to be proved

under Section 29 that

- both parties knowingly and wilfully acquiesced

in its celebration without

having

other but a licensed

place of worship. To prove

such knowledge and

n

parties would

acquiescence

the part of

both

necessarily

be

many

very difficult _ so that in

instances, whether

of the Ordinance

the provisions of

are

adhered to

not, it is

impossible

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