Chap. 169.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2225 of the code of Vir-
ginia, relating to marriage within certain degrees.

Approved January 28, 1896.

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

§ 2225. The same. No woman shall marry her father, grandfather,
step-father, brother, son, grandson, half-brother, uncle, daughter’s
husband, husband’s son or his grandson, or stepson, brother’s son,
or sister’s son.

If any woman shall have heretofore married her brother’s or -sis-
ter’s deceased daughter’s husband, such marriage is hereby declared
legal and valid, and exempt from the penalties prescribed by existing
laws.

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