478 HUSBAND AND WIFE. [ART. 61.

WIFE'S PROPERTY.

19 Property of married women protected from husband's debts, property passing to wife from husband after coverture. 20. When wife to hold and dense property as feme sole, deed, life estate in husband, absolute estate, when and how married women may be sued, judgments, exe- cutions, contracts by married women 21. Trustee for married woman not necessary 22 Having no trustee, may sue by next friend 23 Proceeds of labor of married woman pro- tected, liability

24 Insurance for benefit of wife 25 How insurance may be made payable. 26 Policies of insurance, free from creditors' claims 27 Receipts of married woman good for de- posits 28. Distress for rents, re-entry authorized under leases to married women. 29 If an led women empowered to covenant 30. How married woman to convey

	MARRIAGES.
Art 60, s 1. 1777, c 12, s 1. Void within prohibited degrees.	1. If any person within this State shall marry within any of the degrees of kindred or affinity expressed in the following table, the marriage shall be void:

Id s 2 1777, c 12, s. 1. Whom a man shall not marry 22 Md 468 Whom a woman shall not marry.

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, His son's son's wife, His daughter's son's wife, His wife's son's daughter, His wile's daughter's daughter, His brother's daughter, His sister's daughter.

A woman shall not marry: Her grandfather, Her grandmother's husband, Her husband's grandfather, Her father's brother, Her mother's brother, Her father, Her stepfather, Her husband's father, Her son, Her daughter's son, Her husband's eon, Her daughter's husband, Her brother, Her son's sou, Her son's daughter's husband, Her daughter's daughter's hus- band, Her husband's son's son, Her husband's daughter's son, Her brother's son, Her sister's son.

Id s 3. 1860, c 271. What marriages heretofore made, declared valid 22 Md 468; 33 Md 361

3. All marriages heretofore made and celebrated in or out of this State by and between persons related within the following degrees of affinity, to wit: a man and his niece, or a woman and her nephew, are hereby confirmed and made valid to every intent and purpose, from the time of the celebration of such marriages re- spectively; and every such marriage shall be held and taken, by all courts of this State, to be good and sufficient in law to all intents and purposes.