The Foreign Marriages Act\u00a0 1892 deals with marriages validly celebrated by British citizens abroad before ambassadors and consuls and some other members of diplomatic missions. The Act extended to Ireland. It is not clear if it has continued to apply or whether it might be interpreted as inconsistent with the circumstances of the Irish Free State and Ireland under the 1922 and 1937 constitutions.<\/p>\n\n
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Formalities – Place of Marriage The well-established principle is that the formalities of marriage are governed by the place where the marriage ceremony takes place. The validity is determined by the laws of that jurisdiction only. Even if a marriage might be valid in the same circumstances domestically, it would be invalid if not valid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32440,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155\/revisions\/32440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}