Titel: Can you read this?
Skrivet av: Nils Forsman skrivet 2011-06-08, 22:27
Yes it was 1874 and laws and praxis had changed. I read somewhere that banns still were important and had legal implications.
However, I had a look in Nordisk Familjebok (NF) http://runeberg.org/nfan/0643.html
As I understand the article, the wedding is the important part at this time, with same unmentioned exceptions.
NF also claims that förlovning and trolovning are equal, and that trolovning is an legal agreement with consequenses for the part who breaks it.
On the other hand, lysning is a way to announce the marriage, mostly in order to find out any obstacles.
I have seen church registers - earlier - there lysning and trolovning are more or less synonymous. The church never liked the lysning concept. Slightly surpising that it took so long for them to phase it out.