What is the test for marriage to be held in a civil marriage?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sedgewick v. Sedgewick, 1953 CanLII 193 (SK QB):
As it was put by Kekewich, J. in In re Shephard; George v. Thyer, supra, the parties went somewhere where they purported to go through something like a ceremony of marriage.
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