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TIL of the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which permitted widowed men to marry their dead wife's sister, which had previously not been legal. Under the act, a man marrying his divorced but living ex-wife's sister was still forbidden.

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