Missouri Marriage Laws | § 451.115 | Marriages Illegally Solemnized — Penalty. Marriage Laws

Missouri Revised Statutes 451.115

Marriages illegally solemnized — penalty.

Every person who shall solemnize any marriage, having knowledge of any fact which renders such marriage unlawful or criminal in either of the parties under any law of this state, or, having knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that either of the parties shall be under the age of legal consent, or is prohibited by section 451.020 from entering into such marriage, or where to his knowledge, any other legal impediment exists to such marriage, and every person not authorized by law to solemnize marriages who shall falsely represent that he is so authorized, and who, by any pretended marriage ceremony which he may perform, shall deceive any innocent person or persons into the belief that they have been legally married, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of a class C misdemeanor.

(RSMo 1939 § 4652, A.L. 1982 S.B. 785, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)

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§ 451.080 Recorder to issue license — form of.
§ 451.151 Additional fee for issuing marriage license or certified copies — amount to be collected by county recorder, duty to deposit — how.
§ 451.240 Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom.
§ 451.010 Marriage a civil contract.
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§ 451.022 Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited — license may not be issued.
§ 451.030 Bigamous marriage void.
§ 451.040 Marriage license required, waiting period — presence not required, when — application, contents — license void when — common law of marriages void — lack of authority to perform marriage, effect.
§ 451.090 Issuance of license prohibited, when — parental consent, when required — proof of age.
§ 451.110 Certificate of marriage to be given.
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§ 451.120 Penalty for solemnizing marriage without license, or failing to keep a record thereof.
§ 451.130 Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.
§ 451.150 Licenses to be recorded — fee.
§ 451.160 Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded.
§ 451.170 Lost record of marriage supplied, how.
§ 451.180 New certificate obtained, how.
§ 451.190 Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how.
§ 451.200 Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed — fee.
§ 451.210 Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed — fee.
§ 451.220 Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved.
§ 451.230 How acknowledged or proved — to be recorded, where.
§ 451.100 Marriages solemnized by whom.