We have elsewhere prescribed the same punishment for transgressions committed by persons of equal rank. Therefore, the provisions of a former law relating to the persons as well as property, of men and women who have been betrothed, shall be, and is, hereby confirmed; and if any person after the dowry has been given, or the marriage contract has been legally drawn up, in violation of his, or her, solemn obligations, should marry any one else, without the consent of all parties; he, or she, shall be liable to all the penalties of a former law; and if it should appear that on account of sickness, rather than through fraud, such person is desirous of entering some religious order, he or she shall be permitted to do so, subject to the regulations of the above-mentioned former law. BOOK IV. CONCERNING NATURAL LINEAGE. TITLE I. CONCERNING THE DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIP. =I.= _The Nature of the First Degree._ =II.= _The Affinity of the Second Degree._ =III.= _The Relationship of the Third Degree._ =IV.= _The Consanguinity of the Fourth Degree._ =V.= _The Origin of the Fifth Degree._ =VI.= _The Limits of the Sixth Degree._ =VII.= _The Persons in the Seventh Degree who are not Mentioned by the Laws._ =I. The Nature of the First Degree.= In the first rank of the first degree are included the father and the mother; in the second rank, the son and the daughter; but no other persons. =II. The Affinity of the Second Degree.= In the second degree and the first rank, are included the grandfather and the grandmother; in the second, the grandson and the granddaughter; in the collateral line, the brother and the sister, which persons have a twofold origin, for the father and the mother are derived from both the grandfather and grandmother; the grandson and granddaughter, from both son and daughter; the brother and sister, from both father and mother. And likewise, the persons in the following degrees, in whatever relationship they stand to each other, are, in the same manner, of twofold origin. Persons in the second degree are thus said to be of double derivation, because there are two grandparents, paternal and maternal; and two kinds of grandchildren, descended either from the son or from the daughter. The brother of the father, or the brother of the mother, who are called respectively the paternal or maternal uncles, belong to the collateral line, and they, in like manner, are of double origin. =ANCIENT LAW.= =III. The Relationship of the Third Degree.=