Mims v. Hardware Mutual Casualty Co.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) To be able to contract a valid marriage, the girl must be at least 14 years of age. Code, § 53-102. If she contracts a marriage which is invalid because she is under the age of consent, but, on arriving at this age, ratifies the marriage by continued cohabitation, the marriage is thereafter valid. Americus Gas & Electric Co. v. Coleman, 16 Ga. App. 17 (4) (84 S. E. 493). As stated in Luke v. Hill, 137 Ga. 159, at page 161 (73 S. E. 345), “Such marriages partake more of the nature of voidable than void marriages; they are imperfect marriages which the party…