TITLE 32

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

CHAPTER 3

SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGE

32-308.  Validity not affected by want of authority. No marriage solemnized by any person professing to be a judge, justice, or minister, is deemed or regarded void, nor is the validity thereof to be in any way affected on account of any want of jurisdiction or authority: provided, it be consummated with a full belief on the part of the persons so married, or either of them, that they have been lawfully joined in marriage.

History:

[(32-308) 1863, p. 615, sec. 13; R.S., sec. 2439; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2627; C.S., sec. 4607; I.C.A., sec. 31-308.]