MARRIAGE QUALIFICATIONS.--A man cannot marry until he has completed his seventeenth year; a woman until she has completed her fifteenth year of age. By the dispensation of the church, granted by a bishop, a man of fifteen years or a woman of thirteen years may conclude marriage. The free consent of both parties is essential to a valid marriage. If both the contracting parties are over eighteen years of age parental consent to a marriage is not obligatory. Where both parties are under eighteen years, or the intended bride is under that age and the intended bridegroom is under twenty-one years, the consent of parents is necessary. All persons are forbidden to contract a new marriage until a previous existing marriage has been dissolved or judicially declared a nullity. CONSANGUINITY AND AFFINITY.--Marriage is prohibited between relatives by blood in the direct line and in the collateral line as far as the eighth degree, inclusive--that is to say, as far as the degree of relationship of third cousins. Relatives in the seventh or eighth degree may marry by episcopal dispensation. Marriage is prohibited between relatives by marriage as far as the fifth degree, inclusive. Marriage is prohibited between persons spiritually related, as between the godparent and the godchild or his descendants. IMPEDIMENTS.--Persons who have been judicially condemned for adultery are forbidden to contract marriage with their accomplices in the offence. The party declared guilty in a suit for divorce is prohibited from marrying again during the lifetime of the innocent party. A woman may not, as a rule, marry again until nine months after the dissolution by death or divorce of her previous marriage. Insane persons cannot contract a binding marriage. Incurable impotence of either party, which existed at the time the marriage was concluded, is cause for a decree of nullity. Marriage is expressly forbidden between Christians and Jews or between Christians and non-Christians of any sect whatever. Marriage is prohibited between two persons one of whom has attempted the life of the husband or wife of the other. A lawful marriage cannot be concluded with a woman who has been abducted and has not yet been restored to freedom. Marriage cannot be concluded by a person who is under sentence to imprisonment. PRELIMINARIES.--Before the marriage the parish priest must, on three successive holy days, publish banns in the church, and if any member of the parish knows of any impediment it is his or her duty to inform the priest. If a priest fails thus to publish banns, and impediments later appear, he is amenable to punishment. CELEBRATION.--The law of Servia does not recognize a civil marriage. If the parties, or one of them, belong to the Orthodox Greek Church they must be married according to the rites of that church. Christians of other sects must be married by their clergy and Jews by their authorized ministers.