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Clandestine Marriages Act 1753

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obtained before a marriage could take place and that the marriage should be celebrated in the parish where at least one of the parties was resident. However, these requirements were directory rather than mandatory and the absence of banns or a licence – or even the fact that the marriage was not
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As clandestine weddings and the unruly culture that surrounded them began to threaten power and property, questions about where and how to marry became urgent matters of public debate. In 1753, in an unprecedented and controversial use of state power, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke mandated Anglican
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in very similar terms to the English Act of 1753. But the Manx Act differed in one significant respect from the latter, in requiring clergy from abroad, who were convicted of conducting marriages in breach of the Act's requirements, to be
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The Act was highly successful in its stated aim of putting a stop to clandestine marriages, i.e., valid marriages performed by an Anglican clergyman but not in accordance with the canons. Thus the notorious practice of clandestine
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or the obtaining of a licence. Those under the age of 21 had to have parental consent if they married by licence; marriages by banns, by contrast, were valid as long as the parent of the minor did not actually forbid the banns.
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were exempted from its provisions, although the Act did not go so far as to declare such marriages valid and it was many years before their legal standing was assured. Nor did the Act apply to members of the
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clergyman. The mistaken assumption that a simple exchange of consent would suffice is based on later conflations between the theological position that consent made a marriage and the actual practice of the
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church weddings as marriage's only legal form. Resistance to his Marriage Act would fuel a new kind of realist marriage plot in England and help to produce political radicalism as we know it.
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The Act tightened the existing ecclesiastical rules regarding marriage, providing that for a marriage to be valid it had to be performed in a church and after the publication of
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in a civil ceremony, civil marriage being the creation of statute law. It was also provided that the 1753 Act had no application to marriages solemnized overseas or in
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celebrated in a church – did not render the marriage void. The only indispensable requirement was that the marriage be celebrated by an
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Probert, Rebecca (2009). "Control over Marriage in England and Wales, 1753–1823: The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 in Context".
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The origins of the English marriage plot : literature, politics and religion in the eighteenth century
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However, some couples evaded the Act by travelling to Scotland. Various Scottish "border villages" (
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was ended, although there were various short-lived and abortive attempts to claim exemption for the
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Probert, Rebecca, "The Wedding of the Prince of Wales: Royal Privileges and Human Rights" (2005)
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and Paxton Toll) became known as places to marry. And in the 1770s the construction of a
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Leneman, Leah (Spring 1999). "The Scottish Case That Led to Hardwicke's Marriage Act".
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Lee Brown, R. "The Rise and Fall of the Fleet Marriage", ch 6 in R. B. Outhwaite,
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Marriage Law & Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment
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Marriage Law & Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment
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passing through the hitherto obscure village of Graitney led to
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Before the Act, the legal requirements for a valid marriage in
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An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage.
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Marriage Act
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title
Citation
26 Geo. 2
Royal assent
Commencement
Repealed by
Marriage Act 1823
Text of statute as originally enacted
Lord Hardwicke
26 Geo. 2
statutory legislation
England and Wales
marriage
Scottish marriage
England and Wales
canon law
Church of England
banns
marriage licence
Anglican
church courts
banns
Jews
Quakers
British Royal Family
Charles, Prince of Wales
Camilla Parker-Bowles
Scotland

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