ABSTRACT
The second test to govern the essential validity of a marriage is that propounded by Professor Cheshire.123 The intended matrimonial home test (sometimes described as the matrimonial domicile doctrine) holds that the law of the intended matrimonial domicile is to govern the validity of the marriage, with the proviso that, if no matrimonial home could be discovered, reference should be made to the husband’s ante-nuptial domiciliary law.
