Parents stop wedding - using Napoleonic law!

[mrs moustoir]

Parents disapproved of son's choice of bride and used obscure Napoleonic law to stop the wedding.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8132875/Parents-invoke-Napoleonic-law-to-foil-sons-wedding.html

[Ali]

...................and one wonders what the parents think they will achieve by this !

[kerbut]

I thoroughly agree with this, I for one would be stopping a certain wedding next year (which will not be attending,her brother can give her away) ,but as she is changing her religion to/ and Muslims cannot inherit ,guess who is going to be a looser.