Timeline for Would deinstitutionalising marriage violate the UDHR?
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| Sep 23, 2021 at 0:21 | comment | added | Vikki | @ohwilleke: Most of the UK is a common-law country. Scotland uses civil law. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 13:33 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @TimLymington The UK is a common law country, not a civil law country. In civil law countries such as France you need a marriage at city hall and may get a second one at the formerly established RC church. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 9:36 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | Your last sentence is oversimplified, to say the least; there are many civil law countries (such as the UK) that have established churches. A religious marriage in such a church is fully legally binding irrespective of the State's non-involvement. | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 14:07 | history | answered | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |