North Carolina Marriage Laws | § 51-4

North Carolina General Statutes 51-4

Prohibited degrees of kinship.

When the degree of kinship is estimated with a view to ascertain the right of kinspeople to marry, the half-blood shall be counted as the whole-blood: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to invalidate any marriage heretofore contracted in case where by counting the half-blood as the whole-blood the persons contracting such marriage would be nearer of kin than first cousins; but in every such case the kinship shall be ascertained by counting relations of the half-blood as being only half so near kin as those of the same degree of the whole-blood

(1879, c. 78; Code, s. 1811; Rev., s. 2084; C.S., s. 2496.)

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§ 51-3 Want of capacity; void and voidable marriages.
§ 51-1 Requisites of marriage; solemnization.
§ 51-1.1 Certain marriages performed by ministers of Universal Life Church validated.
§ 51-1.2 (See Editor's note) Marriages between persons of the same gender not valid.
§ 51-6 Solemnization without license unlawful.
§ 51-2.1 Marriage of certain underage parties.
§ 51-2.2 Parent includes adoptive parent.
§ 51-3.1 Interracial marriages validated.
§ 51-3.2 Marriage licensed and solemnized by a federally recognized Indian Nation or Tribe.
§ 51-4 Prohibited degrees of kinship.
§ 51-5 Marriages between slaves validated.
§ 51-18 Record of licenses and returns; originals filed.
§ 51-8.2 Issuance of marriage license when applicant is unable to appear.
§ 51-15 Obtaining license by false representation misdemeanor.
§ 51-16 Form of license.
§ 51-16.1 Form of license for Address Confidentiality Program participant.
§ 51-17 Penalty for issuing license unlawfully.
§ 51-19 Penalty for failure to record.
§ 51-2 Capacity to marry.
§ 51-5.5 Recusal of certain public officials.
§ 51-7 Penalty for solemnizing without license.
§ 51-8 License issued by register of deeds.
§ 51-18.1 Correction of errors in application or license; amendment of names in application or license.
§ 51-21 Issuance of delayed marriage certificates.