Marriage is solemnized mainly through negotiation.
That was a church from which a licence to solemnize marriages had been withdrawn.
The effect is to enable clergymen to solemnize certain marriages in institutions such as hospitals, prisons or places of learning.
He solemnized several; but as they were not valid marriages, they have to be put right.
I mention this point because it might form a quite proper, understandable, consideration in a prisoner's mind in asking for his marriage to be solemnized outside the prison.
No longer will he be able to elect—because there will be rules in prisons as a result of this—to have the marriage solemnized outside the prison.
In each case the question as to the validity arises from the status of the building or edifice in which the marriages were solemnized.
Where a marriage took place in prison, there would appear on the marriage certificate an identifiable address showing that the marriage had been solemnized in prison.
