MARRIAGES.

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ARTICLE 62.

MARRIAGES.

1. Within what degrees of kindred or af- finity marriages to be void. 2. Prohibited degrees of kindred and affinity. 3. Marriages celebrated between man and niece or woman and nephew prior to 1860, valid. 4. License; publication in church; Quak- ers; form of license; certificates. 5. Examination on oath. 6. Marriage license book. 7. Consent of parent or guardian. 8. License to be withheld if legal impedi- ment. 9. Certified copy of record prima facie evidence of marriage. 10. Clerk's fee.

11. License required. Marrying without license. Failure to return certificate ; penalty. 12. Form of marriage certificate. Record of marriage to be made and to be prima jade evidence of such cere- mony. 13. Minister failing to transmit certificate to clerk; penalty. 14. Inquiry into validity of marriage; ap- peal. 15. Marriages celebrated between colored people prior to 1867 confirmed. 16. Clerks to transmit to Bureau of Vital Statistics monthly reports of mar- riages and divorces. 17. Foreign marriage record book.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1777, ch. 12, sec. 1.

1. If any person within this State shall marry within any of the de-
grees of kindred or affinity expressed in the following table, the marriage
shall be void.

The word " void " as used in this section, does not necessarily mean void ab initio.
Construction of act of 1777, ch. 12. Harrison v. State, 22 Md. 482; Dimpfel v. Wilson,
107 Md. 337.
See sec. 14, and notes.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1777, ch. 12, sec. 1.

2. A man shall not marry:
His grandmother,
His grandfather's wife,
His wife's grandmother,
His father's sister,
His mother's sister,
His mother,
His stepmother,
His wife's mother,
His daughter,

As to " husband and wife," see art. 45.
As to " bigamy," see art. 27, sec. 23.
As to marrying unlawfully, see art. 27, sec. 355, et seq.

Ministers may not pay fee for bringing persons to them to be married—art. 27, sec. 364.
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