Chap. 290.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2224 of the Code of Vir-
ginia of 1887, as heretofore amended, in reference to marriages within
certain degrees prohibited.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-two hundred and twenty-four of the Code of Virginia of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, as heretofore amended, in reference to mar-
riages within certain degrees prohibited, be amended and re-enacted
s0 as to read as follows:

§2224. Marriage within certain degrees prohibited——No man shall
marry his mother, grandmother, stepmother, sister, daughter, grand-
daughter, half-sister, aunt, son’s widow, wife’s daughter or her grand-
daughter, or stepdaughter, brother’s daughter, or sister's daughter. If
any man has heretofore 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
Jeclared to be legal and valid and exempt from the penalties prescribed
by existing laws; but provided, that if, prior to the time this act goes into
effect, any man have married his son’s widow or stepdaughter, such mar-
riage is hereby declared to be legal and valid, and such man shall be ex-
2mpt from the penalties prescribed by existing laws.