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18th century laws re: incestuous marriages
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Michael Nicholls <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:52:36 -0600
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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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