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ban de mariage
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In order to get married, the parties need to obtain a marriage licence or to arrange for the banns to be published.
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However, without a license, calling of banns, and a ring, the parson refused.
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Unlike publishing the banns of marriage, it has never been required.
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This gave rise to the practice whereby underage couples would resort to a parish where they were not resident to have the banns called without their parents' knowledge.
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Such a formal church announcement of the intent to marry is known as banns.
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Even if they were engaged and had published banns, a posthumous marriage will not necessarily happen, partly because living engaged couples can change their minds at the last minute.
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He ensured suspicions were not raised among his regular congregation by deliberately omitting to read wedding banns.
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The only way in which an aggrieved parent could challenge such a marriage was if there had been a mistake amounting to fraud in the calling of the banns.
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All of these marriages were authorized by calling the banns in the spouses' churches.
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If she persisted, he would publish banns against her family, a public disgrace.
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