[1442] See the form of oath in Geary, op. cit., 49 n. 3; and Moore, op. cit., 120, who gives all the marriage forms. If the "defendant swears falsely it is not perjury, and only misdemeanour" (Regina v. Chapman, 1849, I Den., 432); and "the spiritual Court has no jurisdiction to punish such false oath" (Phillimore v. Machon, 1876, 1 P. D., 481); Geary, op. cit., 49, 50.
[1443] Now between the hours of 8 in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon: By 49 and 50 Vict., c. 14: Hammick, Marriage Law, 341.
[1444] Compare the clear summary of Robertson, in Britannica, XV, 566; Burn, Ecc. Laws, II, 433f-h; Moore, How to be Married, 1-23.
[1445] Hammick's summary in Marriage Law, 15.
[1446] Above, chap. viii, sec. iv, pp. 359 ff.
[1447] Hammick, op. cit., 65. Cf. Report of the Royal Commission, 1868, 53-58, 34, 36-38, for the responses of various lay and ecclesiastical persons.
[1448] Report, xlii; in Hammick, op. cit., 65, note.
[1449] Rev. S. C. Wilks, in his Banns, a Railroad to Clandestine Marriages (1864), proposed "a simple form of declaration, to be incorporated with the Banns Book": Hammick, op. cit., 66, note.
[1450] From suggestions made to the Marriage Law Commissioners, and published in their Report, 1868: in Hammick, op. cit., 354-62.
[1451] Suggestion of Major Graham, late Registrar General, in the commissioners' Report: Hammick, op. cit., 356: