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OVERVIEW
Section II of Family Law is the first in which you study the actual content
of the Family Law module. This section and all subsequent sections
MUST BE STUDIED and not be merely read as in the case of section
I. (There are, however, parts in section II that you merely have to read, but
we shall expressly indicate where you may do so.)
Marriage law is the field of family law which is discussed in this section.
The discussion is divided into five study units as follows:
. Study unit 4 deals with the engagement which precedes marriage.
. Study unit 5 explains the legal requirements for a valid marriage.
. Study unit 6 deals with a particularly difficult aspect of the legal
requirement of capacity to enter into marriage, namely the marriage of
a minor (who has limited capacity to act).
. Study unit 7 covers void, voidable and putative marriages. In these
marriages one or more of the legal requirements for a valid marriage
were not met.
. Study unit 8 sets out the invariable consequences of marriage.
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