BORDER MARRIAGE HELD VALID
LONDON JUDGE GIVES RULING
LONDON, March 8. On New Year’s Eve 14 years ago an engaged couple motored over the Scottish border, sat in their car for 28 minutes, and agreed to regard themselves as man and wife. A 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 that tjie man picked up his fiancee in York m 1935, intending to take her to his Scottish home for their 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 crossed the border they carried out this ceremony. There was no doubt that they were married, because until 1940 acceptance in Scotland of such a proposal of marriage had constituted a valid though irregular marriage, the Judge added.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26058, 10 March 1950, Page 7
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