Assertion: marriage | /r/HasProperty | invalid
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text: An annulment is a declaration that the marriage was invalid (or null) at the time the vows were exchanged.
text: The Royal Marriages Act of 1772 made it illegal for all persons born into the British royal family to marry without the permission of the sovereign, and any marriage contracted without the sovereign's consent was considered invalid.
text: For example, a marriage would be invalid if one of the parties, at the time of marriage, did not intend to honour the vow of fidelity.
text: We think it cannot now be controverted that an agreement between a man and woman to be husband and wife, consummated by cohabitation as husband and wife, constitutes a valid marriage unless there be in existence in the State in which the agreement is made, a statute declaring the marriage to be invalid unless solemnized in a prescribed manner.
text: The purpose of banns is to enable anyone to raise any canonical or civil legal impediment to the marriage, so as to prevent marriages that are invalid.
text: The Council of Trent (1545–1563) introduced more specific requirements, ruling that future marriages would be valid only if witnessed by the pastor of the parish or the local ordinary (the bishop of the diocese) or by the delegate of one of said witnesses, the marriage being invalid otherwise, even if witnessed by a Catholic priest.
text: A marriage will be invalid if a couple does not call the marriage banns.