The canon law of the Catholic Church defines the religious rules and spiritual effects of marriage, while the civil law defines the civil rules and temporal effects of the contract.
A minister of the church who celebrates a marriage contrary to the requirements of Article 1058 of the Civil Code incurs criminal penalties.
Marriage between Portuguese subjects who are non-Catholics is recognized as producing full civil effects.
Consanguinity and Affinity.—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.
Any infraction of these prohibitions makes a marriage voidable.
Marriage Preliminaries.—Whoever desires to contract marriage according to the manner provided by the civil law of the land must present to the civil officer of the State acting in the place of the applicant’s domicile a declaration setting forth: