Section 30-1-13 Persons solemnizing marriages to execute certificate; recordation thereof; marriage certificate deemed presumptive evidence of fact. - Alabama Statutes

Section 30-1-13

Persons solemnizing marriages to execute certificate; recordation thereof; marriage certificate deemed presumptive evidence of fact.

All persons or religious societies solemnizing marriage by virtue of a license or according to their peculiar forms must, within one month thereafter, certify the fact in writing to the judge of probate, setting forth the names of the parties and the time and place of the celebration thereof, which certificate must be recorded in the book kept for the registry of licenses. A certified copy thereof is presumptive evidence of the fact.

(Code 1852, §1952; Code 1867, §2341; Code 1876, §2680; Code 1886, §2317; Code 1896, §2847; Code 1907, §4887; Code 1923, §9001; Code 1940, T. 34, §12.)