Rev dear Rev: Why and wherefore that strange imponderable adage of the Western Codex in the generic segment on solemnities: “It is a presumption of law and human rights that the outward solemnities and vows in the form of words at wedding solemnities shall be assumed to conform to the inner feelings of the vowing parties concerned.”

“Cry wolf” is heard sometimes in courts up and down the West Coast of California and America nowadays as girls release glowing photos of themselves as happy and radiant playthings of playboys of the western world or of princes of royalty if not of royal houses, but not sufficiently radiant and happy to refuse the comforts of litigation if the said prince does not cough up a ring the very next day over breakfast like a song from Lalisa and her Blackpinks, or to rescind from generous wads of cash from litigation agreements of the same if the playboy in question is not a Mossad agent and does manage to cough up a cool $500,00 in cash no further questions asked, so it is all a mystery. But precisely because of those crocodile tears of the Middle Ages kind, in the catholic wedding rites, the outward solemnities should normally stand, and if one or both parties wishes to overturn a wedding solemnity as invalid, one has to prove that the outward formulaes were not matched by the inner feelings, and this with witness statements and credibility statements and proofs of one kind or another in an annulment process. It has to be proven, so corroborated by 3rd and 4th parties, not merely asserted, with or without crocodile tears.