Chap. 14.—An ACT toamend and re-enact section 2224 of the code of Virginia
relating to the prohibition of marriage within certain degrees.

Approved December 17, 1895.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-two hundred and twenty-four of the code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2224. Marriage within certain degrees prohibited.—No man shall
marry his mother, grandmother, step-mother, sister, daughter, grand-
daughter, half-sister, aunt, son’s widow, wife’s daughter, or her
granddaughter or step-daughter, brother’s daughter, or sister’s daugh-
ter. But this section shall not be construed as prohibiting a man
from marrying an aunt of his former wife. If any man have hereto-
fore married his brother’s widow, or the widow of his brother’s or
sister’s son, or his uncle’s widow, such marriage is hereby declared to
be legal and valid, and exempt from the penalties prescribed by ex-
isting laws.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.