The Legal Consequences of a Marriage Concluded Outside of South Africa
The formal validity of a marriage is determined by the law of the place where the marriage is solemnized.
The formal validity of a marriage is determined by the law of the place where the marriage is solemnized, i.e. the lex loci celebrationis. This, however, does not imply that the law of the country where the marriage was solemnized, governs the legal and proprietary consequences of such marriage.
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