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The Marriage Act 1836 [1] (6 & 7 Will. 4. c. c. 85), also known as the Act for Marriages in England 1836 or the Broomstick Marriage Act , was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that legalised civil marriage [ 4 ] in what is now England and Wales [ 5 ] from 30 June 1837.
Marriage is available in England and Wales to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples and is legally recognised in the forms of both civil and religious marriage. Marriage laws have historically evolved separately from marriage laws in other jurisdictions in the United Kingdom. There is a distinction between religious marriages, conducted by an ...
The Clandestine Marriages Act 1753, also called the Marriage Act 1753, long title "An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage", popularly known as Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act (26 Geo. 2. c. 33), was the first statutory legislation in England and Wales to require a formal ceremony of marriage. It came into force on 25 March 1754.
The Marriage Act 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6.c. 76) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regulating marriages in England and Wales.. The Act had prohibited solemnizing marriages during evenings and at night.
Marriage Act 1697, a Penal Law passed in 1697 discouraging interfaith marriages. All interfaith marriages would be considered legally Catholic. The married couple would have to live under the tough Catholic laws. Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2. c. 33) Marriage Confirmation Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. 18) (short title: 1896 ...
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The Act reformed the law on divorce, moving litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishing a model of marriage based on contract rather than sacrament and widening the availability of divorce beyond those who could afford to bring proceedings ...
The Royal Marriages Act 1772 (12 Geo. 3.c. 11) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which prescribed the conditions under which members of the British royal family could contract a valid marriage, in order to guard against marriages that could diminish the status of the royal house.
She currently holds a chair in Law at Exeter University. Specialising as she does in the history of marriage in England and Wales, her monograph Marriage Law & Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment [1] is widely accepted among legal historians as having overturned previous understandings of the history of common law marriage. [2]