MARRIAGE OF UNCLE AND NIECE HELD TO BE VALID
NEW YORK, May 19. A father living at Providence, Rhode Island, who has fought for five years to end the marriage of his daughter to her uncle was told today that an English law established by King Henry VIII and based on the Biblical Book of Leviticus makes the marriage legaL The assistant Attorney-General, Mr. Archie Smith, admitted today that though the marriage of a 22-year-old woman and 44-year-old brother of her mother is strictly illegal in Rhoda Island, there is nothing he can do about it. The couple went to Nova Scotia to marry. Mr. Smith said the investigation of the Nova Scotian marital laws showed that marrying within families in that Canadian Province is governed solely by an English citation. This mentions the prohibitions of the Book of Leviticus. which forbids boys marrying their aunts and girls marrying their father’s brothers, but says nothing about nieces marrying their mother’s brother. Mr. Smith told the father that since Rhode Island recognises the Nova Scotian law, the State cannot declare the marriage of a niece and an uncle void.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22952, 21 May 1949, Page 5
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