CANADIAN MARRIAGE LAWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 19 June 1912, Page 5

CANADIAN MARRIAGE LAWS.

A SUPREME COURT DECISION

»V CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. OTTAWA, June 18.

The Supreme Court of Canada has decided that the Canadian Parliament has no power to enact legislation of the character of the Lancaster Marriage Bill, arising out of the Ne Teniere decree. The decision means that the authority to enact marriage laws rests entirely Avith the provincial legislatures. The Court decided that the law of Quebec does not render mixed marriages null and void, whether performed by a Catholic priest or a Protestant •clergyman.