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A woman cannot marry more than one man under customary law though there

is a tribe which thinks and acts differently and has a Queen in charge instead of
a King. They are the odd ones out.

It is important to remember this is not applicable on marriages concluded in
accordance with Hindu and Muslim rites which have their own rules. The few I

attended were wonderfully traditional and much enjoyed.

Internet Marriages

These days it is not unknown for a couple to meet on the Internet which is in

fact safer than face to face in many cases. It is also a lot of fun. Yes we all heard
of the horror stories and rumours (it may be true) of all sorts of shenanigans

happening. No doubt that there are shysters out to take your money but where
does the law fit into this? For it cannot be denied that many thousands of

couples do meet and marry and are happy afterwards even if a bit of an odd
couple sometimes.

Can you blame the website if something goes wrong? Probably not for they all

have disclaimers which as we saw is not as important as is the fact that they
simply cannot (nor want to I hope) monitor every person on the site. That would

be very unreasonable to place such a duty of care on them. Moreover where
does the crime take place or jurisdiction in law? Where the screen is read (thus

in any country in the world) or where the servers are? This bothered the law
quite a bit and it seems they follow the server these days but some legal

systems say the completed act is where you read it. Truth to be told we just
don't know for it is so new that case law is limited.

To be sure to pretend you are a Russian bride if you are in fact an ugly fat bloke
is fraud. You simply cannot pretend to be someone who you are not. How far

does lying go before it becomes fraud in law for it is known that most men
increase their income by as much as 60%? The rule of thumb says the moment

that your lies make someone acts to his detriment you are committing fraud.

Some argue whether a crime such as attempted fraud exists in law since the act
of being fraudulent is enough for fraud.

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