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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3

Note 1379 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903

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The Virginia law requires the clerk to deliver to the person entitled the license and also a certificate containing the names of the parties, date of the proposed marriage, etc. The person solemnizing is to return the license and the clerk's certificate, together with his own certificate of the time and place of the marriage: Code (1887), 556.

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