The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as "the banns", (from an
Old English word meaning "to summon") are the public announcement in a
parish church that a
marriage is going to take place between two specified persons.The purpose of banns is to enable anyone to raise any legal impediment to it, so as to prevent marriages that are legally invalid, either under
canon law or under
civil law. Impediments vary between legal jurisdictions, but would normally include a pre-existing marriage (having been neither dissolved nor annulled), a vow of
celibacy, lack of consent, or the couple's being related within the
prohibited degrees of kinship.
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