Alabama Code (Last Updated: November 28, 2014)

§30-1-11. Penalty for solemnization of marriage without license.

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Any person authorized under this chapter to perform a marriage ceremony, who joins any persons in marriage without a license as required by this chapter or who goes out of the state and marries persons, one or both of whom reside in this state, without such license or a license from the state in which the marriage is celebrated, forfeits $1,000, one half to the use of the state, and the other half to the use of any person who may sue for the same.

(Code 1852, §1955; Code 1867, §2344; Code 1876, §2682; Code 1886, §2320; Code 1896, §2850; Code 1907, §4890; Code 1923, §9004; Code 1940, T. 34, §17.)

                    
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