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Adultery or Fornication results in a fine of $500 and/or 6 months in prison.
97-29-1. Adultery and fornication; unlawful cohabitation. If any man and woman shall unlawfully cohabit, whether in adultery or fornication, they shall be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars each, and imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months; and it shall not be necessary, to constitute the offense, that…
Persons with gonorrhea may not marry.
42-102 Minimum age; affliction with venereal disease, disqualification. At the time of the marriage the male must be of the age of seventeen years or upward, and the female of the age of seventeen years or upward. No person who is afflicted with a venereal disease shall marry in this state.
In a divorce, women are able to retain all property they owned prior to marriage. This provision does not apply to men.
Section 30-4-1 Separate property of wife – Property held prior to marriage or acquired after marriage. All property of the wife, held by her previous to the marriage or to which she may become entitled after the marriage in any manner, is the separate property of the wife and is not subject to the liabilities…
Unmarried people are prohibited from having sex.
However, if caught, the lovers are both fined only 10 dollars