| Title: | Incestuous marriage |
| Original Title: | Mariage incestueux |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 10 (1765), p. 110 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Dena Goodman [University of Michigan] |
| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Incestuous marriage." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Dena Goodman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.228>. Trans. of "Mariage incestueux," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 10. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Incestuous marriage." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Dena Goodman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.228 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Mariage incestueux," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 10:110 (Paris, 1765). |
An incestuous marriage is one that is contracted between persons related to a prohibited degree, such as a fathers and mothers with their children or grandchildren, no matter what the degree, brothers and sisters, uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces, and cousins (male and female) up to and including the fourth degree.
It applies equally to persons between whom there is a spiritual alliance, such as a godfather and goddaughter, a godmother and godson, a godfather and the mother of the child whom he has held over the baptismal font, a godmother and the father of the child. See Incest.