Spanish Fork Press | 1906-02-15 | Page 6 | Marriage Easy in Scotland

1 H ll1 MARRIAGE EASY IN SCOTLAND 1 i r k Simple Declaration Suffices to Make j ttitzl1 Couple Man and Wife i i To ho married by Scotch laws one Ah must havo resided for a fortnight In l f I the country After that It is quite sufficient ht q suf-ficient for two people to say before k I witnesses that they take each other 1 as man and wife to marry them as i egally and as firmly as It the archbishop 11 t arch-bishop of Canterbury himself had performed 01 t per-formed the ceremony It Is not alone kct when tho declaration is solemn and In i I teutlonal that the marriage is binding i If bind-ing Such a declaration made in Jest t JIf Is enough to hold as firmly as if It I i wore In earnest Many young people j have thus slipped Into matrimony unfittingly 1 wlttlnI fittingly I Even for a man to address a woman j ns his wife either by writing or by speech and for her to respond In tho A name terms constitutes n marriage In I 4 Scotland Anyone who has ever read 4 Wllkle Collins novel Man and I i Wife will remember there a case In ii f point The heroine sends a note to I u 1 tho hero slgnlnr herself Your Wife tT3l ho is sufficiently careless and UUlf t 11i forent to write his reply on the back r o her own letter and sign himself j t i Your Husband This note crumpled up and tossed aside as of no value 1i falls Into the hands of an unscrupulous r unscrupu-lous person who to levy blackmail I I on the hero keeps it and produces t4 it as evidence of marriage No other s f form had been gone through and yet k the couple were married legally