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ARTICLE 62

ARTICLE 62.

MARRIAGES.

	1. Within what degrees of kindred or af-	12. Clerk's fee.
	finity marriages to be void.	13. License required. Marrying without
	2. Prohibited degrees of kindred and	license. Failure to return certificate ;
	affinity.	penalty.
	3. Marriages celebrated between man and	14. Form of marriage certificate. Record
	niece or woman and nephew prior	of marriage to be made and to be
	to 1860, valid.	prima facie evidence of such cere-
	4. License; who may perform ceremony;	mony.
	publication in church; Quakers;	15. Minister failing to transmit certificate
	certificates.	to clerk; penalty.
	5. 48 hour wait; oath.	16. Inquiry into validity of marriage; ap-
	6. Marriage license book.	peal.
	7-9. Consent of parent or guardian; pen-	17. Marriages celebrated between colored
	alty.	people prior to 1867 confirmed.
	10. License to be withheld if legal impedi-	18. Clerks to transmit to Bureau of Vital
	ment.	Statistics monthly reports of mar-
	11. Certified copy of record prima facie	riages and divorces.
	evidence of marriage.	19. Foreign marriage record book.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, 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. 16, and notes.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 2. 1912, 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,
His wife's daughter,
His son's wife,
His sister,
His son's daughter,
His daughter's daughter,

As to "husband and wife," see art. 45.

As to "bigamy," see art. 27, sec. 19.

As to marrying unlawfully, see art. 27, sec. 437, et seq.

Ministers may not pay fee for bringing persons to them to be married—art. 27, sec. 444.