Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-01

write to France to obtain his parents leave; if his parents be dead but if he has grand parents or great grandparents alive, he must apply to these relatives -only. if he is more than twenty-five years old the refusal of their consent will not operate as bar to bis mar riage. All he need in that case do is to serve his relatives, through notary, with an dcte respectueate, or respectful intimation, and one month after this has been done he can have the banns published. The object aimed at in
 requiring persons to inform their parents or
 grandparents of their intended marriage is to
 prevent clandestine unions, and banns cannot
 be published until proof is furnished that the
 parents or grandparents have received infor-
 nation of the intended marriage. .Banns must be published during two consecutive weeks, and the marriage cannot take place until three clear days after the last publication If the parties should not get married within year after the publication of banns then all the forma1ities of getting parental consent etc.,
 must be gone through again. Parents can not deliver to their children a consent couch ed in general terms, and available for mar riage with anybody and anywhere. To do l this would be an abdication of parental trust; 80 the law requires that the written consent shall state whom the receiver of it is author | ized to marry. The great difference between French and English law is that, according to the latter. | false declarations as to the age of parties | their real names or those of their parents, | simply expose the cuIprits to criminal penal. | ties, but do not annul their marriage; where 1 as in France such false declarations const- ute ftnulIity'' to an extent which the law courts are left to determine If French man gets married abroad without informing
 his parents os the fact, or without going | through the form of asking for their permis- ] sion, the parents may, at any time within | twelve months after they have heard of the \ marriage, move to have it set aside and the | courts will certainly accede to their demand unless the defendant appears in person and furnishes satisfactory reasons for having dis 1 obeyed the law. On the other hand, when the parents have knowledge that son ol daughter has contracted an irregular mar I riage allow year to elapse before attacking I it they are held to have given tacit con | sent, and the marriage becomes valid. Odd \ ly enough, If 8 minor-that is a man under \ twenty-five or woman under twenty-one- marries without parental leave, he or she may subsequently, move to have the marriage set aside, even though the parents should be de II sirous of sanctioning it. It is assumed il | such case that the minor was deprived oi the protection to which he or she had right The necessity for obtaining parental consent has been enacted chiefly for the minors ben eft, and it is the duty of parents to watcl over their children. Consequently, if l young man of twenty-five comes into cour ! saying. Last year. when was under age I married in England without my parents leave, and now, have repented of my folly
 want to get my marriage annulled in order tt marry more suitably" he will have an un
 answerable case.
 These considerations make it incumben upon foreigners to be very careful in thei
 marriages with French people; though, il sum- the chief thing they have to guard
 against is only the making of clandestin
 marriages. It should be clearly known tha
 when even aFrenehman is seventy years oldh
 cannot marry without informing his parents
 if they are alive, nor can he dispense witt ! publication of banns.