4. Of a wife or widow who has been condemned as the principal or accomplice of the crime of homicide with a principal or accomplice in the same crime.

5. Of a person bound by solemn vows of religion to a life of chastity.

The canon law of the Roman Catholic Church is accepted as defining the religious rules and spiritual effects of marriage, but the civil law defines the status and temporal effects of the marriage contract.

Prohibited Marriages.—The following persons are forbidden to marry each other:

1. Ascendants and descendants.

2. Persons related collaterally in the second degree.

3. Males who have not completed their fourteenth year and females who have not completed their twelfth year of age.

4. Persons already bound by marriage.

Preliminaries.—The intending parties must present themselves in person before the registrar and produce certificates showing:

A. Full names, ages, occupations and domiciles of the contracting parties.