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Fleet marriage, the Glossary

A Fleet marriage was a common example of an irregular or a clandestine marriage taking place in England before the Marriage Act 1753 came into force on March 25, 1754.^[1]

24 relations: Banns of marriage, Chambers Book of Days, Clandestine Marriages Act 1753, Clandestinity (Catholic canon law), Common-law marriage, English law, Fleet Prison, Gretna Green, Jewish views on marriage, Jumping the broom, Keith's Chapel, London, Marriage Duty Act 1694, Marriage in England and Wales, Marriage license, Penal transportation, Project Gutenberg, Quaker wedding, Savoy Chapel, Schulze Registers, Tavern, The Clandestine Marriage, Tout, Westminster.

Banns of marriage

The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as the "banns" or "bans" (from a Middle English word meaning "proclamation", rooted in Frankish and thence in Old French), are the public announcement in a Christian parish church, or in the town council, of an impending marriage between two specified persons.

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Chambers Book of Days

Chambers Book of Days (The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character) was written by the Scottish author Robert Chambers and first published in 1864.

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Clandestine Marriages Act 1753

The Clandestine Marriages Act 1753, also called the Marriage Act 1753, long title "An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage", popularly known as Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act (26 Geo. 2. c. 33), was the first statutory legislation in England and Wales to require a formal ceremony of marriage.

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Clandestinity (Catholic canon law)

Clandestinity is a diriment impediment in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Common-law marriage

Common-law marriage, also known as non-ceremonial marriage, marriage, informal marriage, de facto marriage, or marriage by habit and repute, is a marriage that results from the parties' agreement to consider themselves married and subsequent cohabitation, rather than through a statutorily defined process. Fleet marriage and Common-law marriage are types of marriage.

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English law

English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures.

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Fleet Prison

Fleet Prison was a notorious London prison by the side of the River Fleet.

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Gretna Green

Gretna Green is a parish in the southern council area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on the Scottish side of the border between Scotland and England, defined by the small river Sark, which flows into the nearby Solway Firth.

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Jewish views on marriage

Marriage in Judaism is the documentation of a contract between a Jewish man and a Jewish woman in which God is involved.

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Jumping the broom

Jumping the broom (or jumping the besom) is a phrase and custom relating to a wedding ceremony in which the couple jumps over a broom.

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Keith's Chapel

Keith's Chapel, also known as Mr Keith's Chapel and the May Fair Chapel, was a private chapel in Curzon Street, Mayfair, Westminster, operated by the 18th century Church of England clergyman Alexander Keith.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Marriage Duty Act 1694

The Marriage Duty Act 1694 was a 1695 act of the Parliament of England which imposed a tax, known as Marriage Duty or the Registration Tax, on births, marriages, burials, childless widowers, and bachelors over the age of 25.

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Marriage in England and Wales

Marriage is available in England and Wales to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples and is legally recognised in the forms of both civil and religious marriage.

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Marriage license

A marriage license (or marriage licence in Commonwealth spelling) is a document issued, either by a religious organization or state authority, authorizing a couple to marry.

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Penal transportation

Penal transportation was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.

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Quaker wedding

Quaker weddings are the traditional ceremony of marriage within the Religious Society of Friends.

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Savoy Chapel

The King's Chapel of St John the Baptist in the Precinct of the Savoy, also known as the King's Chapel of the Savoy (called The Queen's Chapel during much of modern history in the reigns of Victoria and Elizabeth II), is a church in the City of Westminster, London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_marriage

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