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Village in Dumfries and Galloway region,
Scotland, where runaway marriages were legal
after they were banned in England in 1754;
all that was necessary was the couple's
declaration, before witnesses, of their
willingness to marry. From 1856 Scottish law
required at least one of the parties to be
resident in Scotland for a minimum of 21 days
before the marriage, and marriage by
declaration was abolished in 1940.