Arado v. Arado

The question in this case is whether the statute by which marriages of cousins of the first degree are declared to be incestuous and void is to be interpreted as declaring that such a marriage is void in the sense of being a nullity, ineffectual under any circumstances to bind the parties or to confer marital rights, or is to be construed as being voidable and possessing validity until disaffirmed by the act of one or both of the parties to the marriage, so that the right to disaffirm may be lost by conduct creating an equitable estoppel. The suit was commenced by the filing of a bill on…