FAMILY LAW: Canadian court changes definition of marriage*

In an extraordinary judgement delivered on June 10, 2003, the three member Court of Appeal for Ontario has, on its own authority, redefined the common law definition of marriage from being “the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others” to now be “the voluntary union for life of two persons to the exclusion of all others”.The Ontario Court is the third Canadian Provincial Court to find in favour of amending the law to facilitate the recognition of marriages…

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