Incest

Incest
It refers to a marriage or sexual intercourse between a very closely related male and female either by blood or family structure. No matter if its consensual, but it still is stated as crime in most of states of US and is punishable.

incest
n. sexual intercourse between close blood relatives, including brothers and sisters, parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren, or aunts or uncles with nephews or nieces.

incest - The crime of sexual intercourse between a male and a female who are so closely related they would not legally be allowed to marry.

INCEST. The carnal copulation of a man and a woman related to each other in any of the degrees within which marriage is prohibited by law. Vide Marriage. It is punished by fine and imprisonment, under the laws of the respective states.

In KM v HM, an incest case, Justice La Forest of Canada's Supreme Court wrote: ...

an adulterous or incestuous union. This would mean that one born of intercourse with a menstruating woman would be excepted. R. Joshua's view was that a mamzer is only the issue of a union for which there is the death penalty (see Lev.

A bigamous or incestuous marriage, for example, is void, and there is no need to bring a suit to obtain a decree declaring it void. However, a decree is necessary to annul voidable marriages.

Children born out of marriage, except those who are born from an incestuous or adulterous connexion, may be legitimated by the subsequent marriage of their father and mother, whenever the latter have legally acknowledged them for their children, ...

New York recognizes three types of marriages which are always void : incestuous marriages (DRL 5) , a marriage when the prior marriage was not dissolved and the prior spouse is still living (DRL 6), ...

annulment ("nullity of marriage"): A legal action that says your marriage was never legally valid because of unsound mind, incest, bigamy, being too young to consent, fraud, force, or physical incapacity.

A void marriage is one that is void and invalid from its beginning. It is as though the marriage never existed and it requires no formality to terminate it. For instance, an incestuous marriage would likely be considered void.

See also: Law, State, Public, Cause, Child