MARRIAGES IN CANADA.
DOMINION LAW INOPERATIVE.
LONDON, July 30. The Privy Council has decided that the Canadian Dominion Act, legalising all Canadian marriages solemnised by authorised clergymen under the law of the provinces, is ultra vires. The Quebec Government's contention that such a Federal Bill was inapplicable to that province, inasmuch as the marriage laws were exclusively under provincial jurisdiction, has thus been sustained.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 182, 31 July 1912, Page 5
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64MARRIAGES IN CANADA. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 182, 31 July 1912, Page 5
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