Confirmation of Marriages on Her Majesty's Ships Act 1879
WHEREAS officers commanding Her Majesty's ships on foreign stations have permitted marriages to be solemnized according to religious rites or ceremonies, or to be contracted per verba de presenti in the presence of such officers, in the belief that marriages were authorised by law to be so solemnized and contracted, and doubts have arisen with respect to the validity of such marriages, and it is expedient to confirm the same: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by a...