PRELIMINARIES.--A marriage license is required. CELEBRATION.--Marriage may be concluded before any minister of the Gospel, judge of a court of record, or justice of the peace. CAUSES FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORCE: 1. When adultery has been committed by either husband or wife. 2. When one of the parties was physically incompetent at the time of marriage. 3. When the husband or wife is guilty of excesses, cruel treatment, or outrages toward the other. 4. In favour of the husband, when the wife shall have voluntarily left his bed or board for the space of six months with the intention of abandonment. 5. In favour of the wife, when the husband shall have left her for six months with the intention of abandonment. 6. For habitual intemperance. 7. Wilful neglect to provide for his wife the necessaries and comforts of life for six months. 8. When the husband shall have been taken in adultery with another woman. 9. In favour of either husband or wife, when the other shall have been convicted, after marriage, of a felony, and imprisonment in any prison. ARKANSAS. The minimum age for marriage is 17 for males; 14 for females. Parental consent is required for males under 21 years and females under 18 years of age. The prohibited degrees are the same as in Alabama. CAUSES FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORCE: 1. Impotency. 2. Desertion for one year. 3. Previous existing marriage. 4. Conviction of felony or infamous crime. 5. Habitual drunkenness continued for one year. 6. Cruel and barbarous treatment endangering life. 7. Indignities which render condition and cohabitation intolerable. 8. Adultery. LIMITED DIVORCE.--Limited divorces are granted for the same causes. CALIFORNIA. MARRIAGE.--Marriage is defined as a personal relation arising out of a civil contract, to which the consent of parties capable of making it is necessary. Consent alone will not constitute marriage; it must be followed by a solemnization authorized by the code. A male must be at least eighteen and a female at least fifteen to conclude marriage. Parental consent is required if the male is under twenty-one years or the female under eighteen years. Such consent is not required if the minor has been previously lawfully married. IMPEDIMENTS.--Marriages between parents and children, ancestors and descendants of every degree, and between brothers and sisters of the half as well as the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews are incestuous and void, whether the relationship is legitimate or illegitimate. Marriages between white persons and mulattoes or between white persons and Mongolians are prohibited. CELEBRATION.--Marriages may be celebrated before any justice of the supreme court, any judge of the superior court, any justice of the peace; or before a priest or minister of the Gospel of any sect. HUSBAND AND WIFE.--A married woman may acquire, hold and control property of every description the same as a single woman.