SPECIAL PROHIBITIONS.--Persons suffering from defective intellect, insanity, syphilis or epilepsy are forbidden to conclude marriage. Persons under religious vows to remain celibate cannot conclude marriage unless dispensed from such vows. Accomplices in adultery may not marry each other. Persons in the military service may not conclude marriage without the consent of the higher military authority. PRIESTS.--A priest of the Orthodox Greek Church is required to marry once, but he cannot contract a second marriage even after the death of his first wife. FOURTH MARRIAGE.--It is contrary to the law of the land as well as the law of the church for any person to contract a fourth marriage. BANNS.--All marriages must be preceded by the publication of banns. FOREIGN MARRIAGES.--The Greek courts will not recognize the foreign marriage of Greek subjects who are baptized members of the Orthodox Greek Church unless the marriage was solemnized before a priest of that church. This is the rule, even though in the country where the marriage was concluded a civil ceremony is sufficient and obligatory. DIVORCE.--Absolute divorces are granted for the following causes: 1. Adultery of either husband or wife. 2. Cruel and inhuman treatment, endangering life or health. 3. An attempt by either spouse to kill the other. 4. Threat to kill. 5. The condemnation and imprisonment of either spouse for an infamous or degrading crime. 6. Confirmed habits of drunkenness. 7. Desertion. 8. Incurable impotence of either party. PROCEDURE.--All suits for divorce must be instituted in the ecclesiastical courts of the Orthodox Greek Church. EFFECTS OF DIVORCE.--Both parties are free to remarry, but the wife must wait until a full year has elapsed from the granting of a decree before contracting a new marriage. The wife must not use the surname of her divorced husband. If the wife is the successful suitor, she can recover from the defeated party the dowry she brought to him at marriage. She has a right also to retain any gifts she may have received from him either before or after marriage. In some instances the husband is obliged to pay alimony to his divorced wife during her lifetime, up to the time she contracts a new marriage. If the parties have children, such of them as are so young as to need a mother's care are temporarily awarded to the woman's custody even though she be the party declared to be guilty in the divorce suit. CHAPTER XXIV. THE MOHAMMEDAN LAW OF TURKEY, PERSIA, EGYPT, INDIA, MOROCCO AND ALGERIA. The laws of Mohammedanism which are founded on the Koran and the Traditions of Mohammed to-day constitute the civil and religious code of many millions of the world's inhabitants.