Valid  Marriage  pre-svp-
posed  307

Marriage  of  Infants  nith-
ovt  Consent  ..         . .  307

Clandestine  Marriage  of
Ward  of  Court    ..         . .   808


False  Notices  of  Marriages .  308
Marriage  abroad  . .  . .  308
IVb   Settlement  or    existing

Trust  308

Settlement  iy  Wife  in  fraud

of  Marriage  Treaty        , ,  308


In  treating  of  the  effect  of  marriage  upon  property  a  valid  vaiia  marriage
marriage  is  pre-supposed.     The  property  of  the  parties  will  P>^s-s"PP°sea.
remain  quite  unaffected   by  the  mere  marriage  ceremony
unless  it  constitutes  a  valid  marriage.     In  Sturge  v.  Starr
(2  M.  &  K.  195),  the  marriage  ceremony  was  performed
between  a  man  already  married  and  a  female  who  was  en-
titled to  a  life  interest  in  property.     Afterwards  they  both
joined  in  assigning  her  life  interest  to  a  purchaser.     It  was  Pi-operty  not
held  that  the  assignment  was  valid,  as,  in  point  of  fact,  it  ^^^e'vaiM.
was  an  assignment  by  a  feme  sole,  and  that  the  fraud  prac-
tised upon  her  was  no  answer  to  a  bill  at  the  suit  of  the
purchaser.     And  where  property  of  the  intended  husband
was  settled  in  trust  for  'himseli  until  the  marriage,  followed
by  other  trusts  to  take  effect  afterwards,  and  the  marriage
was  invalid  by  reason  of  the  consanguinity  of  the  parties,  it
was  held  that  the  trust  for  the  intended  husband  was  alone
operative.     Chapman  v.  Bradley,  10  Jur.,  N.  S.  5.
There  are  a  few  cases  in  which  marriage  will  not  be  at-
tended by  its  usual  legal  consequences  as  regards  property.
