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The Maryland Code, Public General Laws, 1888
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ART. 62.] MARRIAGES. 973

ARTICLE LXII.

MARRIAGES.

1. Within what degrees of kindred or
affinity 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 to be valid
4. License; publication in church;
Quakers; form of license, cer-
tificates
5. Examination on oath.
6 Marriage license book.
7. Consent of parent or guardian.

8. License to be withheld if legal
impediment
9. Certified copy of record prima
facie evidence of marriage.
10. Clerk's fee.
11. Effect of license; penalty for mar-
riage without.
12. Inquiry into validity of marriage;
appeal.
13. Marriages celebrated between col-
ored people prior to 1867 con-
firmed.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 60, sec. 1. 1777, ch. 12, sec. 1.

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.

Ibid. sec. 2.

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,

 

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