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Section IV.
Divorce.

Subsection I.
Divorce by Consent.

808.

The husband and wife may effect a divorce by mutual consent.

809.

A person who has not reached the age of twenty five years, in order to effect a divorce by mutual consent, must obtain the consent of those persons whose consent according to Arts. 772 and 773 would be necessary to his contracting a marriage.

810.

The provisions of Arts. 774 and 775 apply correspondingly to a divorce by mutual consent.

811.

The registrar must not accept the application for the registration of a divorce, until he has ascertained that the divorce is not contrary to the provisions of Arts. 775, 2 and 809, or to other laws or regulations.

If the registrar accepts the application in contravention of the foregoing provisions, the validity of the divorce is not affected thereby.

812.

If a husband and wife have effected a divorce by

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