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DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER'S MARRIAGE ACT 1907

DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER'S MARRIAGE ACT 1907 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law relating to Marriage with a Deceased
Wife's Sister.{1}
[28th August 1907]
Marriage with a deceased wife's sister not to be deemed void as a
civil contract except in certain cases.

DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER'S MARRIAGE ACT 1907 - SECT 1

1. No marriage heretofore or hereafter contracted between a man and
his deceased wife's sister [or between a man and his deceased
brother's widow], [or between a man and any of the following
persons; that is to say:

(1)his deceased wife's brother's daughter;

(2)his deceased wife's sister's daughter;

(3)his father's deceased brother's widow;

(4)his mother's deceased brother's widow;

(5)his deceased wife's father's sister;

(6)his deceased wife's mother's sister;

(7)his brother's deceased son's widow;

(8)his sister's deceased son's widow;]

Provided also that in case, before the passing of this Act, any
such marriage shall have been annulled, or either party thereto
(after the marriage and during the life of the other) shall have
lawfully married another, it shall be deemed to have become and to
be void upon and after the day upon which it was so annulled, or
upon which either party thereto lawfully married another as
aforesaid.

DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER'S MARRIAGE ACT 1907 - SECT 2
Saving of existing rights and interests.

2. No right, title, estate or interest, whether in possession or
expectancy, and whether vested or contingent at the time of the
passing of this Act, existing in, to, or in respect of, any
dignity, title of honour, or property, and no act or thing lawfully
done or omitted before the passing of this Act shall be
prejudicially affected nor shall any will be deemed to have been
revoked by reason of any marriage heretofore contracted as aforesaid
being made valid by this Act. And no claim by the Crown for
duties leviable on or with reference to death, and before the
passing of this Act due and payable, and no payment, commutation,
composition, discharge, or settlement of account in respect of any
duties leviable on or with reference to death before the passing of
this Act duly made or given, shall be prejudicially affected by
anything herein contained.

Nothing in this Act shall affect the devolution or distribution of
the real or personal estate of any intestate, not being a party to
the marriage, who at the time of the passing of this Act shall
be, and shall until his death continue to be, a lunatic, so found
by inquisition.

S.3 rep. by 1925 c.49 s.226 sch.6; 1939 c.13 (NI) s.31 sch.

DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER'S MARRIAGE ACT 1907 - SECT 5
Interpretation.

5. In this Act the word "sister" shall include a sister of the
half-blood [and the word "brother" shall include a brother of the
half-blood].

DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER'S MARRIAGE ACT 1907 - SECT 6
Short title.

6. This Act may be cited as the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage
Act, 1907.