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When Marriages Not Void for Want of Authority (1924)

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In this excerpt from The Code of Virginia, published in 1924, marriages under certain circumstances are acknowledged even if the performance was technically illegal.

Author: General Assembly
    Transcription Source: The Code of Virginia, as Amended to Adjournment of General Assembly 1924 (Charlottesville: The Michie Company, 1924), 1255.

    FULL TEXT

    § 5082. When marriages not void for want of authority in person solemnizing it or for defective license.—No marriage solemnized under a license issued in this State by any person professing to be authorized to solemnize the same shall be deemed or adjudged to be void, nor shall the validity thereof be in any way affected on account of any want of authority in such person, or any defect, omission or imperfection in such license, if the marriage be in all other respects lawful, and be consummated with a full belief on the part of the persons so married, or either of them, that they have been lawfully joined in marriage.. (Code 1887, § 2222.)

    See notes for § 5078.

    FURTHER READING

    An act declaring who shall not bear office in this country (October 1705) An act declaring what persons shall be deemed mulattoes (October 1785) General Provisions as to Slaves (1860) An Act to amend and re-enact the 9th section of chapter 103 of the Code of Virginia for 1860 (1866) An Act to amend and re-enact section 49 of the Code of Virginia, 1887 (1910) Colored Persons and Indians Defined (1924) Preservation of Racial Integrity (1924) Atha Sorrells v. A. T. Shields, Clerk, Petition for Mandamus (November 14, 1924) Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Turner McDowell (September 27, 1937) Surnames, by Counties and Cities, of Mixed Negroid Virginia Families Striving to Pass as “Indian” or White by Walter A. Plecker (ca. 1943) Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al. (December 1943)

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    APA Citation:
    General Assembly. When Marriages Not Void for Want of Authority (1924). (2020, December 07). In Encyclopedia Virginia. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/when-marriages-not-void-for-want-of-authority-1924.
    MLA Citation:
    General Assembly. "When Marriages Not Void for Want of Authority (1924)" Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, (07 Dec. 2020). Web. 29 May. 2023
    Last updated: 2020, December 07
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