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Do you know that marriage under the Customary Law Marriages and marriage under the Ordinance Marriage are mutually exclusive? It means that marriage under the two as mentioned above cannot subsist or be operative at the same time.
It is the reason why immediately upon solemnisation of marriage under the Ordinance Marriage, the initial marriage under the Customary Law Marriages falls away automatically. In other words, the potentially polygamous marriage is automatically converted to monogamous marriage.
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