CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11] — Page 211

Enclosure 2.

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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.