5. Relationship within prohibited degrees.

6. Lack of parental consent.

7. In the case of a soldier, lack of proper consent from the necessary military authorities.

Where a marriage has been contracted in good faith the parties thereto and the issue of the marriage are entitled to all civil rights resulting therefrom; but if only one party was in good faith, only that party and the issue of the marriage are entitled to these rights.

Divorce.—The great majority of the people of the kingdom belong to the Roumanian branch of the Orthodox Greek Church, which in practice does not hold to the doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage.

The law of the land permits absolute divorce for the following causes:

1. By mutual consent of the parties. The parties on such an application appear before a judge with a written inventory of their goods, showing the division agreed upon, and with certificates of their birth and marriage, of the births and deaths of their children, and, when necessary, the consent of their parents.

The judge then endeavours to reconcile the parties. If at the end of one year and fifteen days no reconciliation has been effected a divorce is granted.

2. Adultery of husband or wife.

3. Cruel and abusive treatment of one spouse toward the other.