Henry--A search of Hening on line produced two laws --vol 4:244-46
(1730) and vol 12: 688 (1788), both of which prohibit any man from
marrying his wife's sister. Nothing about a wife's half-sister there
even though there are other prohibitions about other step relations
in my quick reading of the laws. The 1730 law states it follows the
levitical prohibition in effect in England--the 1788 law apparently
reproduces the same degrees of relationships in marriage but does not
claim the English precedent. Mick Nicholls
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