Each party involved should have no other subsisting valid marriage.

If any condition is lacking, then there was no valid marriage.

These customs, they argued, meant that there were valid marriages among the Indians.

"The question is whether the man contracted a valid marriage with the mother of his son."

It is the strong public policy of this state only to recognize as valid marriages from other states that are between a man and a woman.

And I think we cannot have a valid marriage without the approval of your kind or mine.

Thus, for example, an individual domiciled in a common law state cannot give consent and create a valid second marriage.

A valid marriage subsequently took place, and they had a son George.

The essence of a valid marriage is free consent.

In 1911, under English law, the earliest age at which a girl could contract a valid marriage was 12; boys had to be 14.