Note 1451 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

Suggestion of Major Graham, late Registrar General, in the commissioners' Report: Hammick, op. cit., 356:

"Without proposing that banns should be prohibited, the commissioners recommend that the publication should not be required by law as a condition either of the lawfulness or of the regularity of marriage, being of opinion that 'every useful purpose which can be answered by the publication of banns in the Established Church may be equally answered by the mere fact of notice to the officiating minister.'"—Hammick, op. cit., 65. In general, on the present law of banns, see ibid., 62-80; Ernst, Treatise of Mar. and Div., 8; Geary, Mar. and Fam. Rel., 37-46, where the judicial decisions are cited; and Moore, How to be Married, 1 ff.