MARRIAGE LICENSE
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 33 Cal. 4th 1055 - Lockyer v. City and County of San Francisco (2004)
Most recently applied in 119 F. Supp. 3d 1155 - Schuett v. FedEx Corp. (January 2016)
Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 476, Sec. 1
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Before entering a marriage, or declaring a marriage pursuant to Section 425, the parties shall first obtain a marriage license from a county clerk.
(b) If a marriage is to be entered into pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 420, the attorney-in-fact shall appear before the county clerk on behalf of the party who is overseas, as prescribed in subdivision (a).
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.