Moreover, in Porto Rico, by the code of 1902, the authorization and celebration of the contract "according to the forms and solemnities prescribed by law" are requisite for a valid marriage.
The license required by statute is not essential to a valid marriage: S.
If the woman consented to the abduction, then, according to the theory which the Christian church was gradually formulating, there would be all the essentials of a valid marriage, the consent to be husband and wife and the sexual union.
In regard to the second marriage (which constitutes the offence) the English courts have held that it is immaterial whether, but for the bigamy, it would have been a valid marriage or not.
A valid marriage must be proved in the first instance in order to support a charge of bigamy.
The marriage wherever solemnized must be a valid marriage according to the law of the place of solemnization; if void there, no prosecution for bigamy can be founded upon it.
The consent of the parent or guardian is made necessary to a valid marriage.
Spouses who had quarreled began to investigate their pedigrees and were unlucky if they could discover no impedimentum dirimens" or cause which would have prevented the contraction of a valid marriage.
The free consent of both parties is essential to a valid marriage.
A man must be at least eighteen years of age and a woman at least sixteen in order to contract a valid marriage.
No person who has taken holy orders which involve a solemn vow to celibacy can contract a valid marriage.
There are certain formal preliminaries to a valid marriage in England, such as the publication of banns, or the procurement of a common or special license which operates as a dispensation with the banns.
An acknowledgment by a couple that they were husband and wife, either orally or in writing, followed or preceded by cohabitation, was regarded as a valid marriage, both by the Church and by society.
There were many of the ministers of the Reformed Church who held that a religious ceremony was not necessary to constitute a valid marriage.
Erskine argued that, in Scotland, the consent of the parties was all that was necessary to constitute a valid marriage.
Gretna Green was the invariable resort of runaway couples, owing to the flaw in the Old Scottish law which required nothing more than an acknowledgment before witnesses in order to constitute a valid marriage.
The consent of the father was always necessary for a valid marriage.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "valid marriage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
