Note 1442 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

See the form of oath in Geary, op. cit., 49 n. 3; and Moore, op. cit., 120, who gives all the marriage forms. If the "defendant swears falsely it is not perjury, and only misdemeanour" (Regina v. Chapman, 1849, I Den., 432); and "the spiritual Court has no jurisdiction to punish such false oath" (Phillimore v. Machon, 1876, 1 P. D., 481); Geary, op. cit., 49, 50.