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	Marriageable age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Utah: 18 generally for first marriage, 16 with parental consent, 14 with court approval or previous marriage.
		Philippines: 20 for males, 18 for females, 16 for males and 14 for females with parental consent.
		Yemen: 9 ("In 1999, the minimum marriage age of fifteen for women, rarely enforced, was abolished; the onset of puberty, interpreted by conservatives to be at the age of nine, was set as a requirement for consummation of marriage."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marriageable_age (883 words)

	MARRIAGE LAWS OF UKRAINE
		State registration of marriages is established with a view to ensuring stable relations between woman and man, protection of rights and interests of married couples, their children, as well as in the interests of the State and society.
		The record of marriage shall be cancelled irrespectively of the death of the persons with whom the marriage was registered (paragraphs 1 — 3 of the present Article), as well as dissolution of this marriage.
		A marriage may not be found invalid if, upon judicial trial of the case, circumstances, which proved the absence of the person's consent to marry or his/her unwillingness to found a family disappeared.
	www.helplinelaw.com /law/ukraine/marriage/mlaw.php (1684 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Canonical Age
		Sixtus V, however, made the twenty-second year inchoate age sufficient for cardinal-deacons, provided that within a year he can be, and is, ordained deacon, under penalty of loss of active and passive vote in all consistories, and even in the conclave for the election of a pope.
		The same age was sufficient in the case of canons upon whom collectively, not singly, the cure of souls devolved, as also of recipients of cathedral half-portions and pensions arising from benefices.
		The marriageable age is fourteen full years in males and twelve full years in females, under penalty of nullity (unless natural puberty supplies the want of years).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01206c.htm (2573 words)

	Douglas County, Wisconsin welcomes you.
		If a person is between the ages of 16 and 18 years, a license may be issued only with the written consent of parents, guardian, custodian, or parent having the actual care, custody and control of the person.
		Age requirements apply at the time of marriage, not at the time of application for a license.
		Persons closer in relationship than second cousins may not marry except where the female has attained the age of 55 years or where either party, at the time of application for a marriage license, submits an affidavit signed by a physician stating that either party is permanently sterile.
	www.douglascountywi.org /marriagelicenses/marriage.htm (570 words)

	Laws of Fiji - ITC Services Online
		Any person may contract a valid marriage under the provisions of this Act if such person is, in the case of a male, of the age of eighteen years or upwards, or, in the case of a female, of the age of sixteen years or upwards.
		Every consent to the marriage of a minor given under the provisions of paragraphs (a) or (b) of subsection (1) of section 13 shall be given in the prescribed form and shall be attested by the Registrar-General or a district registrar or other marriage officer.
		Any marriage officer who solemnizes any marriage without requiring the parties thereto to make the declaration of marriage referred to in section 23 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and further to have his registration as a marriage officer cancelled.
	www.itc.gov.fj /lawnet/fiji_act/marr_act_list.html (3455 words)

	TITLE II of Book IV of Decretales
		If, being around eleven or twelve, she was almost of age, and was betrothed with her own assent at the will of her parents, was blessed, and was known by the man, she ought not to be separated, especially since her parents claimed that she was of lawful age.
		But a woman who has reached marriageable age and marries a man not yet of age for contracting marriage cannot later reject or divorce him since she has already consented to him, unless perchance the one she married absolutely refuses to consent to her after he reaches lawful age.
		But if the girl was not of marriageable age when the man betrothed her, and her discretion did not make up for her age, they undoubtedly contracted betrothal, not marriage, even though the man gave the girl a dowry.
	www.maxwell.syr.edu /maxpages/classes/his381/Decretales4-2.htm (3236 words)

	Papua New Guinea - [At What Age?...are school-children employed, married and taken to court]
		Prevailing "traditional acceptance" regarding the age of marriage and other issues relating to the protection of the child make both domestic law and the Convention insignificant in the lives of children in many remote and traditional villages.
		30) a juvenile under the age of 14 is not considered criminally responsible for any act or omission unless it is proven that at the time of the act of the omission he had the capacity to understand not to act.
		A juvenile between 7 and 14 years of age is not considered fully responsible for an act unless the Court is satisfied that the child fully understood the law at the time a crime was committed.
	www.right-to-education.org /content/age/papua.html (666 words)

	SanathanaDharma
		The bridegroom was supposed to have a house where his wife could be mistress, even in case his parents, brothers and sisters, for some reasons, happend to live with him, thus giving her position of a supremacy in the household.140 This could not have been possible in the case of a child-wife.
		Though it was desired that marriage should take place before attaining womanhood, the Dharmasutras are silent about the sin resulting from the late marriage, and they do not inflict stigma and threats on the guardians of a grown-up girl, which is so common with the later authorities.
		Marriage, in course of time, came to be regarded as a gift by the father to her husband.
	www.sanathanadharma.com /samskaras/marriage/mar4.htm (3767 words)

	Legal age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The concept of legal age is a limitation set by law that specifies that only people that have reached a certain age are allowed to participate in some activity.
		These ages differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and sometimes have special exceptions.
		"Legal age" can refer to any of a number of ages of legal significance, including:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legal_age (88 words)

	Vanguard Online Edition : LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS :- The Compatibility of the Child Rights Act with Islamic Legal ...
		Advocates of early marriage in our communities believe that a girl who appears to be physically mature is ripe for marriage, with no thought being given to her mental capacity or appreciation of the responsibilities that marriage entails.
		The notion that marriage to a young girl is permissible stems from the fact that the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) is believed to have married a lady of ‘tender’ years, Aisha, daughter of Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafah (Abubakar) and his second wife, Umm Rumann.
		Several Hadith demonstrate the Prophet’s insistence on the requirement of the consent of the female in a marriage, and in a particular tradition where it was reported that a girl came to the Prophet to complain that her father gave her in marriage against her will, he gave her the option of annulment.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/fe426112004.html (1371 words)

	China¹s coming marriage gap¹: one million brideless men a year by 2020 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Their projections show that by the year 2000, men in the traditional age range for first marriages (ages 22-31) will outnumber marriageable women (ages 20-27) by about 6 men per 100, because the men were born before, and the younger women after, the establishment of China¹s one-child-per-family policy in the late ¹70s.
		The marriage gap could be much bigger if the ratio of babies born in the next two decades is higher than the 14 extra boys per hundred reported in China now.
		The first peak represents the marriage gap expected as women born after the start of China¹s one-child-per-family policy reach marriage age; a larger cohort of men, born before the policy, means about 6 men per 100 will not find brides.
	www.stanford.edu /group/news/relaged/950208Arc5378.html (1823 words)

	The Rights of Women in Islam
		It is for this reason that generally all over the world the legal marriageable age for the girls is lower than it is for boys, and almost invariably marriages between men and women all over the world take place while the man is, on the average, five years older than the woman.
		This difference exists before the age of marriage, and it is likewise seen in the marriageable years, that is, in the twenty to twenty-four year age-group, and in the twenty-five to twenty-nine year, the thirty to thirty-four year and the eighty to eighty- four year age-groups.
		As a result, the age of woman is longer than the age of man. The average age of woman is greater than that of man. Woman is generally healthier than man. Her power of resistance against many diseases is greater.
	www.al-islam.org /rightsofwomeninislam/33.htm (4028 words)

	‘Spinsterhood’
		As for associating a woman’s age with marriage, this is something that underestimates her value and denies her individual existence.
		The truth is that when we consider the age when a female is called a spinster, we find that some people consider the girl a spinster as soon as she reaches marriageable age.
		This age is anything but clear since if we consider marriage as being the age at which a girl is able to bear children, then the marriageable age begins at puberty.
	arabnews.com /?page=13§ion=0&article=81323&d=27&m=4&y=2006 (531 words)

	MARRIAGE PROCEDURE IN RUSSIA
		The marriage in Russia federation is governed by the Family Code of the Russian Federation, the form and the procedure for entering into a marriage on the territory of the Russian Federation shall be defined by the legislation.
		The procedure and the terms, because of whose existence a marriage may be entered into, by way of an exception, with account for specific circumstances, before reaching the age of sixteen years, may be laid down by the laws of the subjects of the Russian Federation.
		A marriage shall be concluded in the presence of the persons, entering into the marriage, after the expiry of a term of one month from the date of their filing an application to the registry offices.
	www.helplinelaw.com /law/russia/others/marriage.php (1143 words)

	Alaska Name Change Instructions and Forms Package for a Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Also, a person arrives at the age of majority upon being married according to law, unless the person is under the marriageable age of consent as defined in Alaska Statutes, Sec.
		Also, a person arrives at the age of majority upon being married according to law, unless the person is under the marriageable age of consent as defined in your State, Statutes, Sec.
		A person arrives at the age of majority upon being married according to law, unless the person is under the marriageable age of consent as defined in AS 25.05.171 (a), in which case the person reaches majority upon reaching the marriageable age of consent.
	www.uslegalforms.com /ak/AK-NAME-3.htm (1457 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Their sons had either died before reaching marriageable age, or they had the misfortune of never bearing any male children.
		By the time a man's eldest children reach marriageable age, he himself will be approaching an age at which he will no longer be able to support his family.
		In one case the marriage was a "love match" in which the man was escaping a marriage with a sim-pua, and in the other case the daughter was a prostitute who married a man she met [Continued next page] Ideas-About-Marriage; Economics-Of-Marriage 581; 583; 591 DOC:443
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Mar_dir/XMarriage.443 (335 words)

	Bibi Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In North America, child marriages have practically been eliminated, as the legal age in most jurisdictions is 18 years of age.
		Stigma of age in terms of marriage is universal, but is significantly influenced by cultural values and is, therefore, different from society to society.
		Nevertheless, the stigma associated with being single beyond the “marriageable age” is much higher in the South Asian community as compared to that in main stream North America.
	www.bibimagazine.com /N_HR_AgeofMarriage.asp (394 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Applied to the changes shown in Table 10.2, the argument runs as follows: under conditions of relatively high female infant mortality, women of marriageable age were in short supply relative to the number of men seeking wives.
		The result for women was a rise in age at marriage among those who had not been raised for minor marriages.
		The particularly sharp rise in the case of uxorilocal marriages could reflect a growing range of opportunities for wage employment, with the supply of men willing to marry uxorilocally dwindling as the possibility of owning a small farm became less and less attractive.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Mar_dir/XMarriage.1003 (329 words)

	Of Marriageable Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marriageable Age, bringing together the imaginative powers of a born storyteller with a lifetime's worth of personal experience.
		While Of Marriageable Age, as the title indicates, deals extensively with love and the concept of marriage, examining it from both the Western and the Indian point of view, it is by no means limited to these issues.
		Of Marriageable Age recieved excellent reviews in Denmark and was in the bestseller list in the second week; similarly in France, where it was in the top ten all of summer 2002.
	www.sharonmaas.com /html/of_marriageable_age.html (1112 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		A thicket of laws differ over the minimum age for marriage, the definition of a child and the age of consent for sex, offering loopholes to accused.
		The 146-year-old Indian Penal Code puts the age of consent for sex at 16 (which makes even consensual sex with a girl below that age an offence of rape), but adds that sex with one’s wife above 15 is not rape.
		Similarly, the Child Marriage (Restraint) Act is mum on whether such marriages are valid, though it prescribes punishment for the groom, the families and the priest.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060328/asp/nation/story_6022474.asp (517 words)

	Pierce County Wisconsin
		If a person is between the age of 16 years and 18 years, the license will only be issued with the written consent of parents, guardian, or custodian.
		This waiting period does not start until both applicants have signed the forms and the license is not to be released until after the 5 days.
		The marriage ceremony must be performed within that time or you will have to apply all over again.
	www.co.pierce.wi.us /MarriageAppInfo.htm (527 words)

	Liberia - [At What Age?...are school-children employed, married and taken to court]
		However, even though studies have shown that 23.9 per cent of children trade or work for parents as a part of the children's domestic duties, the Government does not see this as harmful, but considers it as a part of discipline to make the children thrifty, self-sufficient and responsible citizens.
		The legal and general definition of the word "minor" relates to legal competence or prohibition against certain acts until a greater age is attained.
		A person under sixteen years of age who commits an act, which would be an offense if committed, by a person over eighteen, shall be subject to provision of Juvenile Court Procedure".
	www.right-to-education.org /content/age/liberia.html (448 words)

	Marriage Act 1963
		A marriage shall be solemnized by or in the presence of an authorized celebrant who is authorized to solemnize marriages at the place where the marriage takes place.
		A marriage shall not be solemnized unless at least two persons who are, or appear to the person solemnizing the marriage to be, over the age of 16 years are present as witnesses.
		A person who solemnizes a marriage, or purports to solemnize a marriage, in a case where he has reason to believe that there is a legal impediment to the marriage is guilty of an offence.
	www.worldlii.org /pg/legis/consol_act/ma196385 (10806 words)

	Marriage in Fiji
		If either party is under the age of 21 years, a written notarized consent is required from the father; the consent may be signed by the mother only if the father is deceased or cannot be located.
		Minimum marriageable age for girls is 16 years; for boys is 18.
		A marriage performed in accordance with the legal requirements of the country in which it takes place is recognized as valid in the United States.
	travel.state.gov /law/fiji_marriage.html (342 words)

	Opinion #5315
		Therefore, in answer to your first question, only the parent having lawful custody of a daughter who is under the age of 18 can give the consent required for the issuance of a marriage license.
		The statutory provision which allows a probate judge to issue a secret marriage license is set forth in 1897 PA 180, as amended by 1967 PA 175, Sec.
		The provisions for a secret marriage license draw a distinction between cases where both of the parties to a proposed marriage are minors, and cases where only one of the parties is a minor.
	www.ag.state.mi.us /opinion/datafiles/1970s/op05315.htm (570 words)

	Human Rights: Questions & Answers
		Regarding Art 16 of the UDHR and marriageable age: There is no marriageable age specified in the Universal Declaration.
		Thus, marriageable age varies from country to country, depending on the different national laws.
		I am not aware of cases in which race is a relevant reason to establish a particular marriageable age.
	www.un.org /pubs/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/qna/cynthia.asp (1687 words)

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		In fact by 1948, 96 percent of all adults in America of marriageable age were married.
		Listen there is no question that marriage is God's plan for a man and woman to know the greatest sense of permanent companionship, intimacy and togetherness that humans can experience.
		You know they may be interested in marriage if they find the right person or the right circumstances, but the fact that a person is still single beyond the early years of adulthood, is a good indication that they are not anxious to run into a relationship that would be short of their expectations.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /thebibleway/ag1095.htm (2582 words)

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