4. Of a wife or widow who has been condemned as the principal or accomplice of the crime of homicide with a principal or accomplice in the same crime. 5. Of a person bound by solemn vows of religion to a life of chastity. The canon law of the Roman Catholic Church is accepted as defining the religious rules and spiritual effects of marriage, but the civil law defines the status and temporal effects of the marriage contract. PROHIBITED MARRIAGES.--The following persons are forbidden to marry each other: 1. Ascendants and descendants. 2. Persons related collaterally in the second degree. 3. Males who have not completed their fourteenth year and females who have not completed their twelfth year of age. 4. Persons already bound by marriage. PRELIMINARIES.--The intending parties must present themselves in person before the registrar and produce certificates showing: A. Full names, ages, occupations and domiciles of the contracting parties. B. The full names, ages, occupations and domiciles of their parents, or, if they are dead, the same particulars of those who replace them _in loco parentis_. C. Proof of the consents of such persons who in law are entitled to give or withhold consent to the proposed marriage. D. A declaration in writing by two respectable witnesses of full age, certifying acquaintance with the contracting parties, and knowledge that they are not related within the prohibited degrees of kinship. If either of the contracting parties has been previously married, proof of the death of the former spouse must be given to the registrar. Upon receiving satisfactory proof as stated above, the registrar must post a notice of the proposed marriage in a conspicuous place in his office, which notice informs all interested persons to file their objections, if any they have, in the registry within fifteen days. If at the end of this period no valid objection to the marriage has been formulated the civil officer proceeds to the celebration of the marriage. A marriage concluded before a civil officer in the form established by the civil law of Brazil can only be annulled by a civil court. DIVORCE.--The law of the Republic does not permit of an absolute divorce for any cause whatsoever. A true marriage can only be dissolved by the death of one of the parties. JUDICIAL SEPARATION.--A separation of the person and goods may be had for the following causes: 1. Adultery of the wife. 2. Adultery of the husband, if such adultery creates a public scandal, or if the husband brings his concubine into the home he has established for his wife. 3. Sentence of one of the spouses to life imprisonment. 4. Cruel and ill-human treatment.