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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 736. Puerto Rican law modified
So much of the law which was in force at the time of cession,
April 11th, 1899, forbidding the marriage of priests, ministers, or
followers of any faith because of vows they may have taken, being
paragraph 4, article 83, chapter 3, civil code, and which was
continued by the order of the secretary of justice of Puerto Rico,
dated March 17, 1899, and promulgated by Major General Guy V.
Henry, United States Volunteers, is repealed and annulled, and all
persons lawfully married in Puerto Rico shall have all the rights
and remedies conferred by law upon parties to either civil or
religious marriages. Paragraph 1, article 105, section 4, divorce,
civil code, and paragraph 2, section 19, of the order of the
minister of justice of Puerto Rico, dated March 17, 1899, and
promulgated by Major General Guy V. Henry, United States
Volunteers, are so amended as to read: "Adultery on the part of
either the husband or the wife."
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