Chap. 252.—Ap ACT ta amend and re-enact seetion 1 of chapter
105, Code of 1873, in reference to granting divorces.

Approved Mareh 4, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of chapter one hundred and five, Code of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

S1. All marriages between a white person and a negro, and
all marriages which are prohibited by law on account of either
of the parties having a former wive or husband then living, shall
be absolutely void, without any deeree of divorce or other legal
process. All marriages which are prohibited by law on account
of consanguinity or affinity between the parties, if solemnized
within this state. or if solemnized out of the state, between par-
ties who go out of the slate for the purpose of being married
and with the intention of returning, and after marriage return
to and reside in this state, all marriages solemuized when either
of the parties was insane, or incapable from physical causes of
entering into the marriage state, shall be void from the time
they shall be so doclared by a decree of divorcee or nullity, or
from the time of the conviction of the parties, under the third
section of the one hundred and ninety-second chapter.

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