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From: "Murlel Sherlock" <>
Subject: Re: [ONTARIO] a basic question re marriage in Ontario
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 22:07:52 +0100
References: <48371A4C.1050509@sympatico.ca>


Hi,
If the person married in England ( UK ) and then married again in Canada
without being divorced
then the person has committed BIGAMY.
Any issue of this marriage would, by UK law be considered illegit.
I could be wrong, but were not the laws something similar in both countries.
I would imagine the person would be able to get away with it - after all
who is going to go to the
trouble of searching.

Interesting, isn't it

Muriel



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie Serna" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:26 PM
Subject: [ONTARIO] a basic question re marriage in Ontario


> Hi list, just a quick question and probably many opinions.
>
> If a person married in Ontario (1916) and claimed to be a bachelor when
> infact was
> previously married in England and no record of a divorce etc can be
> found would the
> marriage still be considered legit. Would any offspring be considerd
> illegit??
>
> Thanks
> Jackie
>
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