Idaho Code § 32-308
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32-308 VALIDITY NOT AFFECTED BY WANT OF AUTHORITY.
Official statutory text
32-308. Validity not affected by want of authority. No marriage solemnized by any person professing to be a judge, justice, or minister, is deemed or regarded void, nor is the validity thereof to be in any way affected on account of any want of jurisdiction or authority: provided, it be consummated with a full belief on the part of the persons so married, or either of them, that they have been lawfully joined in marriage.
History:
[(32-308) 1863, p. 615, sec. 13; R.S., sec. 2439; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2627; C.S., sec. 4607; I.C.A., sec. 31-308.]
History:
[(32-308) 1863, p. 615, sec. 13; R.S., sec. 2439; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2627; C.S., sec. 4607; I.C.A., sec. 31-308.]
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