 | Insanity (Law) - 1896 - 676 pages
...law passed last year, no man and •voman, either of whom is epileptic, imbecile, or feeble-minded, shall intermarry or live together as husband and wife, when the woman is nnder forty-five years of age. The law also covers all illegal elations between such, and prescribes... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Charities - 1910 - 1154 pages
...a law forbidding any man or woman, either of whom is epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded, to marry or live together as husband and wife when the woman is under fortyfive years of age. That such a law prevents to some extent the increase of the unfit no one can honestly deny. In March,... | |
 | National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session - Charities - 1895 - 628 pages
...convened: — SECTION i. No man and woman, either of whom is epileptic, imbecile, or feeble-minded, shall intermarry, or live together as husband and...wife, when the woman is under forty-five years of age. Any person violating or attempting to violate any of the provisions of this section shall be imprisoned... | |
 | Deaf - 1895 - 782 pages
...man and womnn, either of whom [was born deaf or blind or] is epileptic, imbecile, or feeble-minded, shall intermarry, or live together as husband and wife, when the woman is under forty- five years of age ; any person violating or attempting to violate any of the provisions of this... | |
 | Clark Bell - Medical jurisprudence - 1896 - 728 pages
...Assembly convened : SBCTION i. No man or woman, either of whom is epileptic, imbecile or feeble minded, shall intermarry, or live together as husband and...wife, when the woman is under forty-five years of age ; any person violating or attempting to violate any of the provisions of this section, shall be imprisoned... | |
 | James Kerr Love, William Hall Addison - Deaf - 1896 - 398 pages
...man and woman, either of whom (was born deaf, or blind, or) is epileptic, imbecile, or feeble-minded, shall intermarry or live together as husband and wife, when the woman is under 45 years of age ; any person violating, or attempting to violate, any of the provisions of this section,... | |
 | National Conference on Social Welfare - Charities - 1899 - 620 pages
...AND PUNISHMENTS. SECTION I. No man and woman, either of whom is epileptic, imbecile, or feebleminded, shall intermarry or live together as husband and wife when the woman is under forty-five years of age. Any person violating, or attempting to violate, any of the provisions of this section, shall be imprisoned... | |
 | W. Duncan McKim - Capital punishment - 1900 - 308 pages
...to the following effect: " No man or woman, either of whom is epileptic, imbecile, or feeble-minded, shall intermarry or live together as husband and wife when the woman is under fortyfive years of age." " But apart from other difficulties connected with such legislation, it is probable that only a small... | |
 | Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - Homeopathy - 1901 - 342 pages
...with the following text: "No man or woman, either of whom is epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded, shall inter-marry or live together as husband and...when the woman is under forty-five years of age." (This is quoted from Hunt's article in the Northwestern Lancet, XVII., 3.) Last month, January, 1901,... | |
 | 1905 - 276 pages
...1895, follows: "Section 1. No man and woman, either of whom is epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded, shall intermarry or live together as husband and wife when the woman is under 45 years of age. Any person violating, or attempting to violate, any of the provisions of this section... | |
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Presidential ADDENDA. Laws at present enacted in the United States inhibiting the procreation of the unfit. Connecticut Revision, igoz. Section 1354. MARRIAGE or EPILEPTICS AND IMBECILES. Every man and woman, either of whom is epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded,... 
