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MARRIAGES (IRELAND) ACT 1844 - SECT 45

Marriages under this Act cognizable.

45. Every person who shall knowingly and wilfully solemnize any marriage or
pretended marriage in Ireland, unless by special licence ... in any other
place than a church or chapel in which marriages may be solemnized according
to the rites of the United Church of England and Ireland, or a Presbyterian
meeting house certified as aforesaid, or than the registered building or
office specified in the notice and certificate as aforesaid, shall be guilty
of felony (except in the case of a marriage by any Roman Catholic priest which
may now be lawfully celebrated, or a marriage between two of the Society of
Friends commonly called Quakers, according to the usages of the said society,
or between two persons professing the Jewish religion, according to the usages
of the Jews); and every person who in any such registered building or office
shall knowingly and wilfully solemnize any marriage or pretended marriage in
the absence of the registrar shall be guilty of felony; and every person who
shall knowingly and wilfully solemnize any marriage or pretended marriage in
Ireland (except by licence) within twenty-one days after the day of the entry
of the notice to the registrar as aforesaid, or if the marriage is by licence
within seven days after the day of the entry required by this Act made in any
marriage notice book, or after three calendar months after the day of such
entry shall be guilty of felony.

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