What is the test for marriage to be held in a civil marriage?

Saskatchewan, Canada


The following excerpt is from Sedgewick v. Sedgewick, 1953 CanLII 193 (SK QB):

As it was put by Kekewich, J. in In re Shephard; George v. Thyer, supra, the parties went somewhere where they purported to go through something like a ceremony of marriage.

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