I have to share this nugget of fun. In some cases, this law should be enforced at gun point.



Lunatics and Idiots

As the consent of a free agent is a necessary part of the contract of marriage, it follows that the marriages of lunatics and idiots who are not capable of consenting to anything are void.

And it may be said that the marriage of an idiot is invariably void because an idiot is a person who is mentally incapable from his birth. But the marriage of a lunatic, not under a commission of lunacy, during a lucid interval is valid.

In order to support such a marriage it would be necessary to prove that there was an absence of all delusion on the part of the lunatic at the time of contracting the marriage.

In the case of a marriage by a lunatic found so by inquisition, and placed under the care and custody of the Lunacy Commissioners, the ceremony would be absolutely null and void.

The insanity of either party which does not develop till after marriage will not invalidate the contract; nor does it, at present, afford grounds for a divorce.

END MADNESS




Where, oh where do I begin?! Someone had far too much time on their hands.