MARRIAGE LAWS NEW CAUSE FOR NULLITY.
By Telegraph.— Press Awoci»Uon.— Copyright. (Received July 31, 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, 30th July. The Archbishop of York has approved a suggestion that marriages should be made void if within a limited period it was shown that either of the parties was suffering from insanity, epilepsy, or certain diseases. CANADIAN BILL ULTRA VIRES. LONDON, 30th July. Tho Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has decided that the Dominion Bill legalising all Canadian marriages solemnised- by authorised clergymen under the laws of the provinces is ultra vireß. The Quebec Provincial Government's ' contention that such Federal Bill is inapplicable to that province, inasmuch as the marriage laws are exclusively under provincial jurisdiction, is thus sustained.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1912, Page 7
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118MARRIAGE LAWS NEW CAUSE FOR NULLITY. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1912, Page 7
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