1. Duty of minister to solemnise marriage between persons legally competent--Unlawful solemnisation, when a felony--Marriage, when void. 2. Original places for banns and marriages--Churches of new parishes--Licences for banns and marriages in chapels--Parishes having no regular services in parish church--Where parish church is being rebuilt or repaired--No reconsecration necessary where church is rebuilt or enlarged and position of Holy Table altered. 3. Persons legally competent to intermarry--Religion or absence of religion of the parties no ground for refusal to solemnise marriage. 4. _Minimum_ age--Consent of parents or guardians in case of unions--Marriage without consent, in absence of notice--Marriage below lawful age. 5. Marriage of lunatic or _non compos_, void. 6. Absence, unheard of, for seven years--Relief from punishment for bigamy--Invalidity of remarriage. 7 Divorce abroad--Divorce in England under Act of 1857--Remarriage of divorced persons. 8. Marriage of foreigners--Requirements of laws of foreign States--Precautions to be observed. 9. Prohibited degrees of kindred and affinity. 10. Publication of banns--Time and form--Seven days' notice--Publication and marriage without notice and due inquiry--Publication where parties dwell in different parishes or districts--Where one dwells in Scotland, or in Ireland--What constitutes dwelling--Correct names to be published--Status need not be published--Publication to be from book and signed--Forbidding of banns. 11. Marriage, with consent of minister, on registrar's certificate--Not permitted on registrar's licence. 12. Marriage on licence of bishop or Archbishop of Canterbury--Grant of bishop's licence--Previous affidavit before surrogate--Duty of minister on production of licence--Names in licence--Grant of licence a favour and not a right. 13. Marriage, where and when to be solemnised--Priest or deacon may marry--Penalty for solemnising marriage at improper place or time. 14. Reading of service after marriage at a registry office--Second solemnisation of marriage. 15. Fees for banns, certificate of banns, and marriage. 16. Marriage register books--Certificate of marriage. 17. Presumption of marriage of persons coming to Holy Communion--Proof of no marriage--Validity of marriage governed by law of place of solemnisation--Capacity to contract marriage governed by law of domicile---Marriage between British subjects in a foreign country or on board ship pages 100-120 CHAPTER VII BURIAL