Enclosure 2.
C. O.
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Report by the Secting Chief Justice
I notice that in the Straits Set.
Hements Marriage Law, Ardinance & of
1880 the
sans restriction is inverted.
Ordinance and
as in the Hong Kong
that at least one of the
· parties
i re.
quired to be Christian (see sec. 1).
I presume this requirement is
upon
the feeling that Marriage in Christian Countries is generally
based
considered to be something more than
a mere civil contract. I am ex extrach
from judgments of the Judges of the
• Probate and Divorce,
English Court
of
explaining their vicios on this,
this point.
Lord Mackenzie states that in - Scotland marriage is a civil contraes "constituted by the mutual convent of
even in Scotland, the
"partia ." But,
status.