[1489] Following is the form of the marriage-license bond: "That if there shall not hereafter appear any lawful let or impediment, by reason of any precontract, consanguinity, affinity, or any other just cause whatsoever, but that (the parties) may lawfully marry; and that there is not any suit depending before any judge, ecclesiastical or civil, for or concerning such precontract, and also if the said parties, and each of them, are of the ages aforesaid, to wit, female of eighteen and male of twenty-one years, and are not under the tuition of his or her parents, or have the full consent of his or her parents or guardians, respectively, to the said marriage; and if they, or either of them, are not indented servants and do and shall save harmless, and keep indemnified the president and his successors, for and concerning the premises, and shall likewise save harmless and keep indemnified the minister or preacher of the gospel, who shall join the said parties in matrimony, for or by reason of his so doing; then the obligation to be void, else to remain in full force; which said bond shall be filed of record in the office of the secretary."-Laws of Del. (1797), II, 974, 975.
[1490] By act of June 15, 1793: in Laws of Del. (1797), II, 1127, 1128.
[1491] Rev. Stat. (1893), 103.
[1492] Ibid., 594; and cf. ibid. (1874), 473.
[1493] Chase, Stat. of Ohio and the N. W. Ter. (1833-35), I, 101.
[1494] Act of April 4, 1803; Chase, Stat., I, 354, 355.
[1495] It is omitted in the act of Jan. 6, 1824: Chase, Stat., II, 1407, 1408; nor does it appear in Swan, Stat. (1854), 569 ff.
[1496] Ann. Rev. Stat. (1897), II, 3016. Cf. the act of Feb. 16, 1810: Chase, Stat., I, 672, 673. See the act of April 25, 1898, requiring a statement under oath from persons applying for license; also evidence of parental consent in case of minors; and allowing the parent or guardian, when non-resident, to appear before a judge of a court of record in the county where he is domiciled, and give his consent in writing; such written consent must be attested by two witnesses, certified to by the judge, and be forwarded to the probate judge of the county where the license is to be issued: Laws (1898), 309-11.
[1497] Laws of the Ter. of Mich. (1871-84), I, 30-32.
[1498] Ibid., I, 646-49.