Article 232. Payment and acceptance of a bride price
The acceptance of a bride price by the parents, kinsmen, or relatives by marriage of the bride, in the form of money, livestock, or other property—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed one year, with confiscation of the bride price, or by corrective labor for the same period, with confiscation of the bride price.
The payment of a bride price by the groom, his parents, his kinsmen, or his relatives by marriage—
- shall be punishable by corrective labor for a period not to exceed one year, or by public censure.
Article 233. Coercion of a women into marriage, or obstruction of marriage
The coercion of a woman into marriage, or into cohabitation, or obstruction of marriage—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed two years.
Article 234. The conclusion of a contract for marriage to a person who has not attained marriageable age
The conclusion, in accordance with local custom, of a contract for marriage to a person who has not attained marriageable age—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed two years, or by corrective labor for a period not to exceed one year.
In this connection, the commission of rape, or entering into sexual relations with a person who has not reached the age of puberty, shall be punishable in accordance with the appropriate article of the present code.
Article 235. Bigamy or polygamy
Bigamy or polygamy; that is, cohabitation with two or several women in a single household—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed one year, or by corrective labor for the same period.
Article 236. The scope of Chapter Eleven of the present Code
The force of the present chapter shall apply to those autonomous
