A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[1461] Cf. 19 and 20 Vict., c. 119, sec. 4. The form of certificate is given by Hammick, Marriage Law, 333, 334; Moore, How to be Married, 148. All the forms are given by Moore, ibid., 120-63.

[1462] 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 85, sec. 18. Cf. Burn, Eccl. Laws, II, 433bb.; Bohn, Pol. Cyc., III, 329; Friedberg, op. cit., 413-15; Hammick, op. cit., 118 ff., 122 ff.

[1463] Burn, Eccl. Laws, II, 433x; Robertson, in Britannica, XV, 567; Friedberg, op. cit., 416; Bohn, op. cit., III, 322.

[1464] Between 8 and 12 in the forenoon by 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 85, sec. 20. This was changed by 49 and 50 Vict., c. 14, sec. 1.

[1465] Original act said "seven days": Burn, op. cit., II, 433aa, changed by 19 and 20 Vict., c. 119, sec. 9. Cf. Geary, Mar. and Fam. Rel., 87; Hammick, op. cit., 324.

[1466] Robertson, in Britannica, XV, 567; Burn, op. cit., II, 433z-bb.

[1467] Re-enacted by 19 and 20 Vict., c. 119, sec. 18.

[1468] By 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 85, sec. 42. Cf. Bohn, Pol. Cyc., III, 324; Burn, op. cit., II, 433ii; Hammick, op. cit., 295.

[1469] 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 85, sec. 20. Cf. Burn, op. cit., II, 433cc; Bohn, op. cit., III, 323; Hammick, op. cit., 289, 145; Moore, How to be Married, 49.

[1470] By the act of 7 and 8 Vict., c. 81 (1844), supplemented by 34 Vict., c. 110, and 26 and 27 Vict., c. 27, the essential features of 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 85, were adopted for Ireland, the proximate cause being the excitement aroused by the case of the Queen v. Millis, 1843: see chap. vii, sec. ii, p. 316, above; and also Hammick, Marriage Law, 232-39; Geary, Mar. and Fam. Rel., 557 ff.