| Show VnollIHITKll MAtlllttUlH The Tribune Yesterday Wcdnesd prlited tho following question from a coirespondttit I InthismarrIage 01 first cousins prnhlhlld hylaw i lIow are the degrees of consan iruliiltv counted from lint to fourth 3 What la the nearest degree nf Consanguinity Jn which the law permits persons 10 inarry Our evidEmpararY answered no > lot lom 5 j 1i la i can be Illustrated ns follows fol-lows A has two sons 11 I I and C Theli children would be In the second degree de-gree from A und the fourth degree train eahoUer You can always asCertain as-Certain the daro 01 conngulnll between IWO persons hy running ilia degrees hack to a common source and odlIg them together 1 Second COUP Its Hull answers relate ant 10 the low Hu-ll It exists III Utah In some stat first cousins can marry Section im page 39 otthe Revised Statutes of 1893 prescribe the decrees 01 relationship within which marriage in I forbidden as fOllous Afarrlar twt toti parents and j I elIJdn encomium And descendants or every degree brothers and oltr of the half as well as the whole bloI line too and nlore Aunts and I1 < rh or betvecn any pon relatkl 10 Par other wllhln And ml Including the fourth deg 01 conBnulnlty 11m pUletJ acordlnl to the lies 01 civil I low are Incestuous and void from till beginning whether the relationship Is I legitimate I or Illegitimate I I Persons related within and not Including In-cluding the fourth degree ot consnn I < ulnll I V may not marry The fun n I second and third degttes are prohibited prohibit-ed but the fourth degree Is not being expressly ext Iuded from the prohibition prohibi-tion The Tribune Is correct In saying that first cousins are related In the fourth degree but It Is I In I error In statIng stat-Ing that the nearest degree of consan gulnlty within hlh pe mans nny mot ry li I that nf second cousins First cousins may marry In this mate and such marriages occasionally take I place without a question ns to their legality To make the matter stilt clearer The first degree of consanguinity Is I parent and child the second Is I brother and sister the third Is I uncle nnd niece the fourth Is I first cousins and Is J expressly excluded from the prohibition of the statute Second cousins would be the fifth degree third cousins the nixth Fit |
