Blood Relations: Section 1450 The Civil And Commercial Code

Blood Relations Section 1450 the Civil and Commercial Code. A marriage cannot take place if the man and woman are blood relations in the direct ascendant or descendant line, or brother or sister of full or half blood. The said relationship shall be in accordance with blood relation without regard to its legitimacy. Marriage is forbidden between persons who are related within the prohibited degree of consanguinity or affinity. This is to say that a marriage cannot take place if the man and woman are blood relation in the direct ascendant or descendant line, or brother or sister of full or half blood, e.g. sister and brother, nephew and grandmother, grandfather and niece, grandfather and great-niece (Section 1450, Civil and Commercial Code).