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Example sentences for "first cousins"

  • In Oregon all widows and fathers may vote, without regard to property qualification, in school district elections; and this State joins the number of those which forbid the marriage of first cousins.

  • Minnesota forbids the marriage of imbecile or epileptic persons; Nebraska that of first cousins, and Pennsylvania adopts the uniform divorce law recommended by the commissioners.

  • The first interference of statute was the prohibition of the marriage of first cousins.

  • At present the Audhelias forbid marriage within the same gotra and also the union of first cousins.

  • This would bar the marriage of first cousins.

  • The marriage of persons belonging to the same section and of first cousins is prohibited.

  • But he may marry within his mother's sept, and in some localities the union of first cousins is permitted.

  • The marriage of persons belonging to the same sept and also that of first cousins is prohibited.

  • Besides the prohibition of marriage within the same barga, the union of first cousins is sometimes forbidden.

  • Marriage The marriage of members of the same sept, and also that of first cousins, is forbidden.

  • Marriage Marriage is prohibited between members of the same sept and also between first cousins, and a second sister may not be married during the lifetime of the first.

  • Marriage within the clan is forbidden and also the union of first cousins.

  • The marriage of persons belonging to the same section and of first cousins is forbidden.

  • Marriage within the barga is forbidden, but the union of first cousins is not prohibited.

  • The marriage of first cousins is considered especially suitable.

  • The marriage of first cousins is forbidden, and while the grandchildren of two sisters may intermarry, for the descendants of a brother and a sister the affinity is a bar till the third generation.

  • Marriage between members of the same clan and also between first cousins is prohibited.

  • But on the mother's side the gotra does not serve as a bar to marriage and the union of first cousins would be possible, other than the children of two brothers.

  • And several castes allow the intermarriage of first cousins, that of a brother's daughter to a sister's son and in a less degree of a brother's son to a sister's daughter being specially favoured.

  • The "children of first cousins" are the offspring of the first cousin marriages who married persons not related to themselves by blood.

  • Of the territories, Arizona, Alaska, and Porto Rico forbid the marriage of first cousins, but in Porto Rico the court may waive the impediment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common salt; first began; first blush; first born; first care; first century; first chapter; first class; first expedition; first heard; first husband; first idea; first impulse; first introduced; first meeting; first officer; first person; first play; first reception; first thing; first view; first white; first winter; having taken; take orders; urged against