Section 13: Nationality as affected by marriage—The respondent, a British subject
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
13. Nationality as affected by marriage—The respondent, a British subject
born in Mauritius and the widow of a British subject, left for and settled in
France in 1923 and there married a French national domiciled in Paris. Her
second husband died in 1934.
HELD the respondent who, by reason of her marriage in 1928 had lost
her British nationality, had regained it in 1933 as a result of the passing of
the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1933, there being no evidence that, at the time of her second marriage in 1928, or at any other time,
she had expressed the desire of acquiring the French nationality. D’Arifat v
Lesueur (1949). (Obsolete)
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