Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-03-28
Marriage Customs and Laws.

gus, criminal proceedings might De
taken against those who married too
late, as well as against those who did
not marry at all. Among the Jews
marriage is permitted to males at the
age of thirteen and day--to females
at twelve and day.
In this country marriage is, by law,
only "A civil contract, magistrates as
well rs clergymen having Il right to
celebrate. The age Of consent at com
mon law is fourteen in males and
twelve in females. When a person
under this age marries, such person
can. when he or she arrives at the age
above specified, avoid the marriage,
OF such person, or both. may, if the
other is Of legal age, confirm it. If
either of the party is under seven, the
marriage is void. The parties must
each be willing to marry the other. If
either party acts under cOmpulsion,
or is under duress, the marriage is
yoidahle.
In England no male can be married
under the age of fourteen; no females
under that Of twelve. Civil marriages
take place, on due public notice of
intention, before a Registrar, but more
generally IN place Of worship. If in
a church Of the Protestant Episcopal
denomination public announcement
of intention must be given by the cler-
gymen, during morning worship, on
three successive Sundays. THIS is
called publishing the bans" and
marriages can be celebrated, IN church,
only between eight o'clock in the
morning and noon. In a marriage by
license, which costs about eleven dol
laIs, the bans need not be published.
BY a specia! license, which costs $3.50,
a marriage may be solemnized in any
without notice and at any
hour, and even in a private house.
In Austria, bride and bridegroom
must each have completed the age of
fourteen. In Bavaria, the legal age of
marriage varies, for males, from four
teen to eighteen, and for females from
thirteen to fifteen, in different dis
trlcts. In Baden, the law allows a
man to marry at eighteen and a
woman at fifteen; but the consent of
parents is necessary until they have
respectively completed the ages of
twenty-five and tWenty-one. Consent
being withheld, the young people can
not appeal, rs in Austria la Sake
toburg hOtha, no male can marry be-
fore he Is twenty one years old. Fe-
males may marry, if they have been
at the age of fourteen. In
Denmark, the ages are twenty for the
man and sixteen for the girl. The
Minister of Justice may dispense with
the rule. In France, no men marry
before eighteen; no women, before
fourteen. Under the old monarchy,
the ages wore fourteen ana twelve.
by the ancient laws of France, the age
for "A male was thirty, and twenty-five
for feuale. In llesse Darmstadt,
the rule was that the man must be
twenty-five; but this was reduced
seven years ago to tWenty-onc, and
the number of marriages has much in
creased IN consequence, There Is no
limit rs to the girls age, it being left
to the parents or guardians to take
care that no mere child is welded. I'm
Greece, males cannot marry before
fourteen nor females before twelve
years of age. I'm the lonian Islands,
now part of Greece, the age Is six
teen for the male aad fourteen for the
female In Hungary, the Catholic tor
saCramcntaD marriages are regulated
10y canon law, other marriages by civil
law. Under canon Law. the ages are four
teen and twelve, and minors cannot
wed without the father consent. The
civil law also fixes twelve us the earli-
est age at which a girl may marry.
Men cease 80 be minors at tWcnty-fum
and women at sixteen. \ minors
without patemal consent is
null and void. In Italy, the legal
is above the usual stand
ard, being eighteen for males and
sixteen for females. In lapland.
the age is seventeen for males In
Norway, mo- limit OF age is required.
In Sweden, II IS tWcnty-une for maics
and fifteen for females. In the Meth
crlands, eighteen m the ease OF males
and twelve for females, In Portugal. I
fourteen tor males and twelve for te-
males. In Prussia. eighteen for males
and ,aurtrrn for females, and "A late
law has made marriage merely a civil
contract, like the leasing of 4 house
In Noummla, the ages are eighteen for
males and fifteen for females In sax.
ouy, the limits of age are eighteen for
males aud sixteen tor females; i'm
SPAIN fourteen for males and twelve
Tor females In ~sNttyrrlIul Tho limits