Legislative history of the Gold Coast and Lagos marriages ordinance: III

The St. Helena marriage law model was adopted in Ceylon and Hong Kong. these marriage laws were at the origin of a new prototype, the venerable 1884 Gold Coast Marriage Ordinance, which in turn became the parent of marriage laws throughout Commonwealth Africa. After eleaborating the ancestry of the 1884 Ordinance and its swtages of development, the author its legislative history and the development in its application. Notes, fig., app.: Hong Kong Marriage Ordinance; Stages of creation of the 1848 Gold Coast Marriage Ordinance.