30-1-10 - Application by persons unknown to clerk -- Affidavit -- Penalty.

30-1-10. Application by persons unknown to clerk -- Affidavit -- Penalty.
When the parties are personally unknown to the clerk a license shall not issue until anaffidavit is made before him, which shall be filed and preserved by him, by a party applying forsuch license, showing that there is no lawful reason in the way of such marriage. The partymaking such affidavit or any subscribing witness, if he falsely swears therein, is guilty of perjury.

No Change Since 1953