A register of marriages was to be kept.

In most states, registering of marriages and divorces is not compulsory.

This also served as a register of marriages amongst Shrotriya Brahmins.

Once the two fathers had signed, once they had seen their names written in the register of marriages, it was irrevocable.

Inside the sacristy are preserved today as registers of marriages and baptisms for the dead, some of which date back to the late fifteenth century.

The church also has an historic register of marriages, with the oldest records dating to the sixteenth century and made in Polish and German.

The phrase schout en schepenen appears in many legal documents prior to the Napoleonic period, including the civil register of marriages.

Because there is no national register of marriages in the United States, the U.S. Embassy cannot provide such a certification.

He had begged to play a short interlude piece while the couple were led behind a vast Venetian screen to sign the official register of marriages that the notary had brought with him from Beverly Hills.

For several years a register of marriages and baptisms was regularly kept; but since the Parliamentry Churches, with the districts annexed, were erected into parishes quoad sacra, the minister at Portnahaven baptizes and marries without having the names of the parties entered in the parish register."