White Person Marrying a Negro or Celebrating Such Marriage (1873)
White person marrying a negro or celebrating such marriage.
8. Any white person who shall intermarry with a negro shall be confined in jail not more than one year, and fined not exceeding one hundred dollars.
9. Any person who shall perform the ceremony of marriage between a white person and a negro shall forfeit two hundred dollars, of which the informer shall have one-half.
- Title
- White Person Marrying a Negro or Celebrating Such Marriage (1873)
- Description
- This act passed by the Virginia General Assembly punished any white person who intermarried with a Black person with fines and jail time. It also fined the person who conducted the ceremony, with half of the fine going to the informant who reported the marriage to authorities.
- Date
- 1873
- Author
- Virginia. General Assembly
- Legal Concept
- Jim Crow Laws
- Subject
- African Americans
- Document Type
- Legal Code
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bibliographic Citation
- George W. Munford, editor. Third Edition of the Code of Virginia: Including Legislation to January 1, 1874. Richmond: James E. Goode, 1873. Title 54, Ch. CXCII, Sec. 8-9.
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- Title
- White Person Marrying a Negro or Celebrating Such Marriage (1873)
- Description
- This act passed by the Virginia General Assembly punished any white person who intermarried with a Black person with fines and jail time. It also fined the person who conducted the ceremony, with half of the fine going to the informant who reported the marriage to authorities.
- Date
- 1873
- Author
- Virginia. General Assembly
- Legal Concept
- Jim Crow Laws
- Subject
- African Americans
- Document Type
- Legal Code
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bibliographic Citation
- George W. Munford, editor. Third Edition of the Code of Virginia: Including Legislation to January 1, 1874. Richmond: James E. Goode, 1873. Title 54, Ch. CXCII, Sec. 8-9.
- Digital Repository
- Google Books