NO OBEY CLAUSE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 5

NO OBEY CLAUSE.

Lord Chief Justice Changes Wedding Lines. UNCEREMONIOUS MARRIAGE. MELBOURNE, January 2. When the bride of the Lord Chief Justice of England (Lord Hewart) omitted at her wedding the word “obey” and Lord Hewart said “My worldly goods with thee I share ” instead of “ endow’ ” they altered the Church of England marriage service to > please themselves. Discussing the marriage service of the Church of England. Archbishop Head said that it has not been altered > since 1662, and carried out correctly t should still contain the words “ obey ” > and “ endow.” ‘ Probably the least ceremonious mar--1 riage in Australia is contracted in the ' Roman Catholic Church. It is a special • marriage for those living in remote parts of the outback, and is as simple as the old ceremony of Gretna Green, t if less romantic. All the contracting parties have to 2 do is to agree to marry and obtain the 5 written consent of a priest. Later, 1 when they can get to a church they go •- through the full Catholic marriage ser--1 Apart from this special contract, the 2 minimum marriage service takes place 2 before a Registrar of Marriages. Both parties must take the oath that all they say is the truth, as in a court i of law, and then sign a document giv- » mg particulars of their ages, birth, re- ” sidence, position in life, and swear that -j there is no just cause or impediment [ why they should not marry. They then • sign a marriage certificate, and the cere--1 mony is over. There are no promises 1 to obey or look after each other in sicki ness or health, or for the bridegroom to , endow his bride with his worldly goods. j Three clear days’ notice of a civil wedding must be given.