MARRIAGE HELD VALID
SCOTTISH BORDER INCIDENT RULING OF COURT (N.Z.P. A.—Copyright) (Rec. 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 8. On New Year’s Eve 14 years ago an engaged couple motored over the Scottish border,-sat in a car , for 20 minutes and agreed to regard themselves as man and wife. The London divorce court to-day ruled that this “marriage” was valid, and dismissed the wife’s contention that she had never been married . The judge said the man picked up his fiance in York, in 1935, intending to take her to his Scottish home for the wedding. Before crossing the border the woman asked whether they could not be married at once by accepting one another as man and wife when they crossed the border. When they got over the border they carried out this ceremony. There was no doubt they were married, because until 1940 acceptance in Scotland of such a proposal of marriage had constituted'*a valid though irregular marriage.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 123, 9 March 1950, Page 5
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