White Person Marrying a Negro or Celebrating Such Marriage
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
- Description
- Acts passed by the Virginia General Assembly reflected race-neutral language of the legal code after the Civil War. Application of these statutes resulted in entrenched Jim Crow segregation.
- 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
- Description
- Acts passed by the Virginia General Assembly reflected race-neutral language of the legal code after the Civil War. Application of these statutes resulted in entrenched Jim Crow segregation.
- 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