NO CEREMONY NEEDED
MARRIAGE REGISTRATION
ABOLISHED
SOVIET'S NEW WEDLOCK LAW.
(United Press Association. —Copyright.)
MOSCOW, 17th November.
The Soviet Legislature has endorsed the marriage proposals of the Government. Marriage now will only involve the trouble of going to the Commissariat to record marital relations, which will require an identity card costing a few pence. People may live in or out of wedlock as frequently as they please. There will be no illegitimacy, the new code says, unless cohabitation is accidental or mereljr_ temporary.
The proposal to abolish registration of marriages made by the Commissar of Justice precipated a stormy debate at the session of the Central Executive of Soviet Republics. The strongest opposition came from the .delegates representing tho peasantry, one declaring that it was simply a measure to legalise polygamy.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1926, Page 9
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