Consanguine marriage

A consanguine marriage or consanguineous marriage or union is a marriage between two blood relatives of the same blood, descending from the same ancestor.[1]

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Further reading

  • Arner, George B Louis (1908). Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population. Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law XXXI. New York, Columbia University: Longmans, Green & Co. OCLC 1981218. 
  • Ottenheimer, Martin (1996). Forbidden Relatives: The American Myth of Cousin Marriage. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0252022394. OCLC 33408080. 

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