References: [1818] EngR 533, (1818) 2 Hag Con 238, (1818) 161 ER 728
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Nullity of marriage, by reason of publication of banns in false names, not supported in fact. This was a suit of nullity of marriage, by reason of the publication of banns not being made in the true names of the parties. The suit was brought by the father of the husband, as his natural guardian. The libel stated the circumstances, in which it was alleged that the marriage was effected by artifices and misrepresentations, and in a, cladestine manner, and in a parish to which neither of the parties belonged, and entirely unknown to the father of the minor; and that it was celebrated by banns under a false designatdon of the woman.
‘The strongest case you could establish of the most deliberate plot, leading to a marriage the most unseemly in all disproportions of rank, of fortune, of habits of life, and even of age itself, would not enable this Court to release him from chains which, though forged by others, he had riveted on himself. If he is capable of consent and has consented, the law does not ask how the consent has been induced.
