FORBIDDEN MARRIAGES.--Bigamous marriages; incestuous marriages; miscegenation--between blacks and whites; and marriage of a female compelled by menace, force or duress. Such marriages involve a criminal prosecution. CELEBRATION.--A marriage may be concluded before any regular minister of religion, any judge of a court of record, or a justice of the peace. CAUSES FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORCE: 1. Impotency. 2. Adultery. 3. Voluntary abandonment from bed and board for two years. 4. Imprisonment in the penitentiary for two years, the sentence being for seven years or longer. 5. The commission of the crime against nature. 6. Habitual drunkenness. 7. In favour of the husband, when the wife was pregnant at the time of marriage without his knowledge or agency. 8. In favour of the wife, when the husband has committed actual violence on her person attended with danger to life or health, or when from his conduct there is reasonable apprehension of such violence. LIMITED DIVORCES.--Decrees of separation from bed and board are granted to either spouse on the ground of cruelty. REMARRIAGE.--On February 13, 1903, an act was approved making it unlawful for either party to marry again after a decree of divorce has been granted, until after the expiration of the time allowed for taking an appeal (sixty days from the date of the decree), as well as during the pendency of an appeal, if one is taken. ALASKA. In the Territory of Alaska marriage is deemed a civil contract. Marriages may be solemnized before a qualified clergyman, judge or magistrate. Marriage is forbidden between persons who are related to each other within, but not including, the fourth degree of consanguinity. These degrees are computed according to the rules of the Roman Law. DIVORCE.--The following are legal causes for an absolute divorce: Impotency existing at the time of marriage and continuing to the commencement of the suit; adultery; conviction of felony; wilful desertion continued for the period of two years, or more; cruel and inhuman treatment calculated to impair health or endanger life; and gross and habitual drunkenness. ARIZONA. MARRIAGE.--In this newly admitted State marriage is treated as a purely civil contract. A male must be at least eighteen and a female at least fourteen years of age to lawfully contract marriage. The consent of the parents is required in the case of males under 21 and females under 18. CONSANGUINITY AND AFFINITY.--All marriages between parents and children, including grandparents and grandchildren of every degree; between brothers and sisters of the half as well as the whole blood; between uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews; and between first cousins are declared to be incestuous and void. The preceding paragraph extends to illegitimate as well as legitimate children and relations. NEGROES, MONGOLIANS AND INDIANS.--Marriage between whites and negroes, between whites and Mongolians, or between whites and Indians are absolutely void.