Massachusetts § 48 Solemnization of marriage without authority; penalty

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 48 — Solemnization of marriage without authority; penalty

Massachusetts § 48

Part IIREAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Title IIIDOMESTIC RELATIONS

Ch. 207MARRIAGE

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Bluebook

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 207, § 48 (2026).

Text

Section 48. Whoever, not being duly authorized by the laws of the commonwealth, undertakes to join persons in marriage therein shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

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