The Clandestine Marriages Act 1753, also called the Marriage Act 1753, long title "An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage", popularly...

A Fleet marriage was a common example of an irregular or a clandestine marriage taking place in England before the Marriage Act 1753 came into force on...

impediments to marriage should be identified. In England, under the provisions of the Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2. c. 33), a marriage was only...

Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2. c. 33) Marriage Confirmation Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. 18) (short title: 1896 Act, s.1) Marriage...

aimed at suppressing clandestine marriages by introducing more stringent conditions for validity, and thereafter only marriages conducted by the Church...

of marriage were recorded as having been brought before the Ecclesiastical courts in England in 1685. Prior to the Clandestine Marriages Act 1753, which...

The Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2. c. 33) attempted to prevent "clandestine" marriages by imposing a standard form of entry for marriages, which...

fornication. "Contract marriages" (or more strictly marriages per verba de praesenti) could be presumed, before the Marriage Act 1753, to have been undertaken...

enactment of "Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act" of 1753, which required that, in order to be valid and registered, all marriages were to be performed in an official...

"Marry and multiply in spite of the Devil" (referring to the Clandestine Marriages Act 1753) have been added to the second banner. In the foreground a maimed...

Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30). Short title assigned by the Statute Law Revision Act 1948 {{|Small Debts, Boston Act 1753|public|7|17-04-1753|archived=n|An Act for...

Hardwicke's Marriage Act "for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage" in England and Wales. King George II adjourns Parliament the next day; the act comes...

legalised civil marriage in what is now England and Wales from 30 June 1837. Since the Marriage Act 1753, the only legally recognised marriages in England...

consent of the Family Court. Polygamous marriages are not permitted in New Zealand. There are prohibitions of marriages between some relatives and some who...

courts for fornication. The Marriage Act 1753 also did not apply to Britain's overseas colonies of the time, so common-law marriages continued to be recognized...

centuries. The Catholic Church forbade clandestine marriage at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), which required all marriages to be announced in a church by...

until the Marriage Act of 1753 as many as 300,000 clandestine marriages were performed at Fleet Prison alone. The Act required a marriage ceremony to...

Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 2. c. 54) Arms (Ireland) Act 1810 (50 Geo. 3. c. 109) Turnpike Roads Act 1822 (3 Geo. 4. c. 126) Clandestine Marriages Act 1753...

became necessary for a marriage to be legal.[page needed] Finally the 1753 Marriage Act, aimed at suppressing clandestine marriages by introducing more stringent...

treatises of Henry Stebbing and were caused by the passing of the Clandestine Marriages Act 1753. Academica. Part I. Several Discourses on Natural and Revealed...

Church, and later various protestant churches, of considering clandestine marriages and marriages made without parental consent to be valid was controversial...

3. c. 134) Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2. c. 33) Drawback on Malt Act 1821 (1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 82) Endowed Schools (Ireland) Act 1813 (53 Geo...

marriages and baptisms – a few months after the passage of the Clandestine Marriages Act 1753, but before it came into force. His choice of wife was unacceptable...

3. c. 69) Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2. c. 33) Office of Paymaster General Act 1805 (45 Geo. 3. c. 58) Benefit of Clergy Act 1566 (8 Eliz...

a safe haven if celebrated in an Anglican church. Still, many "clandestine" marriages occurred. In many societies, people born out of wedlock did not...

of Great Britain passes Lord Harwicke's Marriage Act 1753 "for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage" in England and Wales; coming into force...

passes Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act "for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage" in England and Wales, requiring marriages to be performed by licensed...

Keith's Chapel, the location before the Marriage Act 1753 of various clandestine marriages, including the marriages of the Duke of Chandos and Mrs Anne Jeffrey...

19th centuries. The Marriage Act of 1753 attempted to prevent 'clandestine' marriages by imposing a standard form of entry for marriages, which had to be...

undergone a form of marriage in a clandestine Church of England ceremony that all parties to it knew was invalid under the Royal Marriages Act 1772. Having encouraged...