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After Lord Hardwicke’s Act it was impossible to contract a valid marriage in England without either banns or special licence ; but in Scotland it continued to be the law that consent of the parties in the presence of witnesses was sufficient to constitute a valid marriage. Elopements were made to Gretna Green, where the village blacksmith read the English marriage service, and the consent of the parties was expressed by their concurrence in this quasi-ceremony.
But the Marriage (Scotland) Act, 1856, s. 1, provided that no irregular marriage contracted in Scotland after December 31, 1856, should be valid unless at least one of the parties usually resided or had for the twenty-one preceding days been in Scotland. See Marriage
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