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    SECTION 7

    Voidable marriages

    Domestic Relations (DOM) CHAPTER 14, ARTICLE 2

    § 7. Voidable marriages. A marriage is void from the time its nullity
    is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction if either party
    thereto:

    1. Is under the age of legal consent, which is eighteen years;

    2. Is incapable of consenting to a marriage for want of understanding;

    3. Is incapable of entering into the married state from physical
    cause;

    4. Consent to such marriage by reason of force, duress or fraud;

    5. Has been incurably mentally ill for a period of five years or more.