A licence which couples must obtain before getting married, except in civil marriage by certificate or church marriage authorized by the publication of banns.
〈英〉结婚许可证
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The applicants in that case went to the High Court, by way of a test case, seeking a decision as to whether same-sex couples could lawfully obtain a marriage licence.
But the Supreme Judicial Court stopped short of ordering that marriage licences be issued to seven gay couples who challenged the law.
Danes under the age of 24 who want to marry non-nationals will have to meet set criteria before a marriage licence will be granted.
One day David sneaks Nancy out of her boarding school to get a marriage licence at the local courthouse.
Members of the public can't ask to look at the register, but they can get a copy of a marriage licence for £7 and the more details they have the better.
Some churches fear their right to deny people a marriage licence will be stripped.
The couple returned from their honeymoon to find their marriage licence wasn't completed and they weren't actually married.
Inspired by talk of love and romance in the run up to Valentine's Day, they have decided to apply for a civil marriage licence.
It said that denying marriage licences to same-sex couples violated anti-discrimination laws.
She already had a marriage licence to marry Neal.
The bogus bride who tried to marry Toby at York register office in a sham wedding, was fined £150 by York magistrates for lying under oath to get a marriage licence.
Baptism, marriage licence, and the christening of his children aside, we know nothing of Shakespeare's life until September 1592, when Robert Greene attacked him in print.
Lesbians and gays took the challenge to the Big Apple yesterday, with hundreds of couples lined up at city hall, demanding marriage licences.
The three largest provinces in Canada are granting same-sex marriage licences.
On 27 November 1582, the clerk noted in the Episcopal Register of the Diocese of Worcester the application for a special marriage licence inter Willelmum Shaxpere et Annam Whateley de Temple Grafton.
While genuine elopements are now rare, the local registry office, which charges £148 for a marriage licence, now injects around £500,000 a year into the local economy.
She made the decision after hearing from five gay and lesbian couples who were denied marriage licences in the province.