Section 25.05.281. Marriage solemnized by unauthorized person.

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After a license has been obtained, a marriage solemnized before a person professing to be a minister, priest, or rabbi of a church or congregation in the state or a judicial officer or marriage commissioner is valid regardless of a lack of power or authority in the person, if the marriage is consummated with a belief on the part of the persons so married, or either of them, that they have been lawfully joined in marriage.

Notes

Recent Bills that will modify this

HB 20 SOLEMNIZE MARRIAGE: ELECTED OFFICIALS
HB 316 SOLEMNIZE MARRIAGE: PUBLIC OFFICIALS

History

(Sec. 1 ch 58 SLA 1963)

                    
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