[1155] Pub. Stat. of Mass. (1882), 811; Rev. Laws of Mass. (1902), II, 1351; Rev. Stat. of Maine (1884), 517; Pub. Stat. of N. H. (1891), 494; Gen. Laws of R. I. (1896), 625.
[1156] For a digest or tabulation of the statutes of all the states and territories relating to definition, age of consent to marriage, age below which parental consent is required, prohibited degrees, void, voidable, and forbidden marriages, as the law stood in 1887, see Wright, Report, 28-45.
[1157] See chap, xviii, sec. i, b), for some account of the laws governing the "age of consent."
[1158] Pub. Stat. of N. H. (1900), 588.
[1159] Written consent is requisite in Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont; but it may be either written or verbal in Massachusetts; and in all cases the consent is preliminary to issuance of license: Pub. Stat. of Mass. (1882), 810; Rev. Stat. of Maine (1884), 516; Vermont Stat. (1894), 501; Gen. Stat. of Conn. (1887), 608, 609; ibid. (1902), 1085; Gen. Laws of R. I. (1896), 623; and Acts and Resolves (1899), 49.
[1160] Pub. Acts of Conn. (1895), 474.
[1161] Act of May 18, 1894: Acts and Resolves (1894), 453, 454. See also the provision referred to below, relating to the clandestine marriage of a girl of sixteen secured by abduction.
[1162] Acts and Resolves of Mass. (1899), 160; cf. Revised Laws (1902), II, 1347-49.
[1163] Swift, System of the Laws of Conn. (1795), I, 186, 187.
[1164] Pub. Stat. (1900), 588. Cf. Wright, Report, 34.