IMPEDIMENTS.--Same as in Massachusetts. However, Jews are permitted to marry within degrees permitted by their religion. CAUSES FOR DIVORCE: 1. In case marriage was originally void or voidable by law. 2. When either party is for crime deemed civilly dead. 3. When party may be presumed dead. 4. Impotency. 5. Adultery. 6. Extreme cruelty. 7. Wilful desertion. 8. Continued drunkenness. 9. Neglect or refusal of husband, being able, to support wife. 10. Any other gross misbehaviour and wickedness in either of the parties repugnant to and in violation of the marriage covenant. SOUTH CAROLINA. MARRIAGE.--No age is fixed by law for marriage of minors, nor when parental consent is necessary. IMPEDIMENTS.--Same as to prohibited degrees of kinship as in Massachusetts. Marriages of whites with Indians, negroes, mulattoes, mestizos, or half-breeds, are forbidden. FORMALITIES.--No license is required, and no particular form of ceremony necessary. DIVORCE.--By a provision of the State constitution divorces from the bonds of matrimony are not allowed in South Carolina. Marriages may, however, be annulled for want of consent of either party, or for any other cause showing that at the time of the supposed marriage it was not a contract, provided such contract has not been consummated by cohabitation. SOUTH DAKOTA. MARRIAGE.--Minimum age at which males can marry is 18 years, females 15 years. Parental consent is required for males under 21 years and females under 18 years. PROHIBITED DEGREES.--Same as in Massachusetts. Common law marriages are recognized. Marriage may be solemnized by minister, priest, judge of supreme court or probate court, justice of the peace, mayor, or by the parties themselves making a joint declaration. CAUSES FOR DIVORCE: 1. Adultery. 2. Extreme cruelty. 3. Wilful desertion for one year. 4. Wilful neglect for one year. 5. Habitual intemperance for one year. 6. Conviction of felony. Limited divorces are not granted. TENNESSEE. MARRIAGE.--The lowest age at which males can marry is 16 years, females 14 years. Parental consent is necessary for males under 21 years and females under 18 years. CONSANGUINITY AND AFFINITY.--The prohibited degrees are the same as in Massachusetts. Marriages of whites with negroes, mulattoes or persons of mixed blood are forbidden. A person declared guilty of adultery is forbidden his or her accomplice during the lifetime of the former spouse. FORMALITIES.--License necessary. Marriage ceremony may be religious or civil in form. CAUSES FOR DIVORCE: 1. Natural impotence and incapacity of procreation at time of marriage, and still existing. 2. A previous marriage still subsisting. 3. Adultery. 4. Desertion for two years. 5. Conviction of such crime as renders party infamous. 6. Conviction of felony. 7. Malicious attempt on life of other spouse. 8. Wife's refusal to move with husband into this State, and wilful absence from him for two years.