To elope, most literally, means to run away and to not come back to the point of origin. More specifically, elopement is often used to refer to a marriage conducted in sudden and secretive fashion, usually involving a hurried flight away from one's place of residence together with one's beloved with the intention of getting married.
Today the term "elopement" is colloquially used for any marriage performed in haste, with a limited public engagement period or without a public engagement period. Some couples elope because they wish to avoid objections from parents, or religious obligations.
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In England, a legal prerequisite of marriage is the "reading of the banns" — for the three Sundays prior to the intended date of the ceremony, the names of every couple intending marriage has to be read aloud by the priest(s) of their parish(es) of residence, or the posting of a 'Notice of Intent to Marry' in the registry office for Civil ceremonies. The intention of this is to prevent bigamy or other unlawful marriages by giving fair warning to anybody who might have a legal right to object. In practice, however, it also gives warning to the couples' parents, who sometimes objected on purely personal grounds. To contravene this law, it is necessary to get a special licence from the Archbishop of Canterbury — or to flee somewhere the law did not apply, across the border to Gretna Green, Scotland, for instance.
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Meerut. An FIR has been filed against a 32-year-old man from the minority community for allegedly luring a 17-year-old girl to elope with him in Meerut, police said on Saturday ... .
Bareilly... In his police complaint, Ramnath claimed that Kalpana's maternal grandfather and her uncle were involved in the murders ... 'Ramnath and Prempal are from the same community. Prempal's daughter AshaDevi had eloped with Ramnath's son Vijay Kumar.
The woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi, whose husband had alleged that she eloped with a beggar, has told police that she had moved to a relative's home because her husband repeatedly abused and beat her... .
Bengaluru police has arrested a 30-year-old tuition teacher who had reportedly eloped with his 15-year-old student over a month ago, a media report said.
In a new interview, filmmaker Indra Kumar recalled that he had his only disagreement with Aamir Khan when they had different views on some elopement and marriage scenes in Dil.
A 36-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district has allegedly abandoned her husband and six children and eloped with a beggar. The husband, Raju, has filed a police complaint under Section 87... .
The husband alleged in his complaint that a 45-year-old beggar would sometimes come to the neighbourhood to beg and chat with his wife. In fact, he also used to speak with his wife over the phone ....
