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Good news you can now marry your mother in law

   What would Les Dawson have said?
   By Chris Barton

   February 7 2006, 12:00am, The Times

   WHAT would Les Dawson have said? The European Court of Human Rights has
   held that one may marry one’s mother (actually father)-in-law, thereby
   removing the remnants of the ban imposed by Henry VIII. The Strasbourg
   decision results from Article 12 of the Convention on Human Rights that
   provides a “right to marry and found a family”. Is there anyone left
   whom one may not wed, let alone not have sex with, nor have children
   by?

   When “L” and “B”, L’s former daughter-in-law, attempted to give notice
   of marriage at Warrington Register Office, the superintendent registrar
   must have congratulated himself on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to
   demonstrate his knowledge of the law. The Marriage (Prohibited Degrees
   of Relationship) Act 1986 had pruned an extensive list of banned…
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