However, the second and invalid marriage would enjoy the advantage of being putative marriage.

Laws usually do exist to protect the rights of an unsuspecting second spouse and any children from the otherwise invalid marriage.

Because of their parents' legally invalid marriage, their two sons were still deemed illegitimate.

They went through a legally invalid marriage ceremony at Bourgoin on August 29, 1768.

Any child of an invalid marriage is deemed illegitimate and excluded from the line of succession.

Finally, the effect of retrospective legislation which purports to validate a formally invalid marriage will usually be recognised as an application of favor matrimonii.

Note that it contains weddings that took place off-screen as well as invalid marriages, commitment ceremonies and vow renewals.

Richard III justified his accession to the throne by claiming that the children of Edward IV were the product of an invalid marriage.

His brother, Prince Augustus Frederick, contracted an invalid marriage with Lady Augusta Murray in 1793 without the King's consent and had two children with her.

The Catholic Church maintains that divorce is wrong, but has long accepted that invalid marriages can be annulled, and that in these cases a civil divorce can be recognized.

Again, if an invalid marriage has been contracted, and the diriment impediment can be removed, a convalidation or sanatio in radice can be performed to make the marriage valid.

Because divorce was not allowed in the Catholic faith, he used the pretext that as Catherine had been married to his older [and dead] brother Arthur that it was an invalid marriage.

Generally, the number of times Erica has been married is named as ten, though the total of her valid and invalid marriages, plus her 1991 vow renewal with Adam Chandler, would come up to twelve.

This invalid marriage ceremony was performed by one of the prince's Chaplains in Ordinary, the Reverend Robert Burt, whose debts (of £500) were paid by the prince to release him from the Fleet Prison.

In February 1981, Sullivan issued a pastoral letter in which he declared that ministries to divorced and remarried Catholics "may not witness, explicitly or implicitly, that the living Church condones the marital lifestyle of those living in an invalid marriage."

Maria Anne Fitzherbert (previously Weld, née Smythe; 26 July 1756 - 27 March 1837) was a longtime companion and mistress of the future King George IV of the United Kingdom with whom she secretly contracted an invalid marriage before his accession to the throne.