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Capacity to Contract a Polygamous Marriage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2025

J. L. R. Davis
J. L. R. Davis*
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Australian National University
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Federal Law Review , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1973 , pp. 294 - 302
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Copyright © 1973 The Australian National University

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References

1 The Confiict of Laws (1971),121; Dicey and Morris, The Confiict of Laws, 8th ed.(1967),Rule 35, 283.

2 IAt 288.

3 Cheshire & North, Private International Law, 8th ed.(1970),303.

4 Confiict of Laws in Australia, 2nd ed.(1971),440.

5 Law Com. No. 42, 1971.

6 Id., 8, para. 18.

7 (1887) 38 Ch.D. 220.

8 Id., 234.

9 Id., 236.

10 See, e.g.The Sinha Peerage Claim [1946] 1 All E.R. 348n. and Bamgbose v. Daniel [1955] A.C. 107, in which the House of Lords and Privy Council respectively upheld the legitimacy of the children of valid polygamous marriages.

11 (1885)53 L.T.711,712.

12 [1951] P.50.

13 [1968] P. 564.

14 Id., 577.

15 1929 S.L.T.96.

16 On this point the decision was overruled in MacDougall v. Chitnavis [1937]S.C 390.

17 1929 S.L.T.96,99.

18 [1917] A.D.302.

19 1954 (4) S.A,241.

20 (1958) 13 D.L.R. (2d) 465 (B.C. Sup. Ct.).

21 (1962) 31 D.L.R. (2d) 566 (B.C. Sup. Ct.).

22 (1867) 11 Lower Canada Jurist 197; a synopsis of the report is appended as a note to Beckett, “The Recognition of Polygamous Marriages under English Law” (1932) 48 L.Q.R. 341, 369.

23 [1951] P. 124, 144-146.

24 Id., 136.

25 [1959] E.A.L.R. 568.

26 The only example to date of the operation of s.6A(2) is Crowe v. Kader [1968] W.A.R.122.

27 (1866) L.R.1 P. & D.130.

28 Since Padolecchia v. Padolecchia [1968] P.314.

29 [1968]P.314.

30 Conflict of Laws in Australia, 2nd ed.(1971),441.

31 Cf.Pugh v. Pugh [1951] P.482.

32 (1861)9 H.L.Cas.193.

33 Especially in Dicey & Morris, op.cit., 256-258.

34 [1973]Fam.35.

35 (1861)9 H.L.Cas.193.

36 (1835)2 Cl.& F.488.

37 [1948]P.100,114 per Lord Greene M.R.and 121 per Bucknill L.J.

38 [1951]P.124,144-146 per Denning L.J.

39 The phrase is that of Lord Brougham in Warrender v. Warrender (1835) 2 Cl. & F.488,532.