Note 1432 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

In the preceding year, by 3 Geo. IV., c. 75, the provision of the Hardwicke act invalidating marriage of minors by license without consent, and some other defects, were remedied; but the eighth and following sections of the law prescribing more "stringent regulations to prevent clandestine marriage by licence," were repealed by 4 Geo. IV., c. 17, which enacted that "licences should be granted in the case of minors as under Lord Hardwicke's act": cf. Hammick, Marriage Law, 15, note; Hansard, Debates, 2d series, VII, 702, 1635 (Commons); 1128, 1143, 1198, 1373, 1452 (Lords); and Phillimore, Speech on the Marriage Act, 45 ff.