Such marriages had been altogether banned, rather than deemed morganatic, by Alexander III s " ukase " # 5868 on 23 March 1889 . But " ukase " # 35731 / 1489, issued on 11 August 1911, amended the 1889 ban with the words, " Henceforth no grand duke or grand duchess may contract a marriage with a person not possessing corresponding rank, that is, not belonging to a Royal or Ruling house ."
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:: It is clear that both male Indians and female Indians have capacity to marry and that each has the capacity and the right to contract a marriage either with another Indian or with a person who is not an Indian . " The Indian Act ", however, which is a law made by the Parliament of Canada for Indians, prescribes a different result with respect to the rights of an Indian woman who marries a person other than an Indian, or an Indian of another band, from that which is to obtain when a male Indian marries a person other than an Indian, or an Indian who is a member of another band.
