Kentucky Revised Statutes · § 402.070 — Marriage not invalid for want of authority to solemnize
402.070. Marriage not invalid for want of authority to solemnize
No marriage solemnized before any person professing to have authority therefor shall be invalid for the want of such authority, if it is consummated with the belief of the parties, or either of them, that he had authority and that they have been lawfully married.
Source notes
Effective: October 1, 1942
History and annotations
Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2102.
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