!!!Eheschließung
Marriage, contraction of marriage ( Matrimonial Law) between bride and
bridegroom. Marriage contracts are unconditional and do not impose any
time limits. Validity of a marriage contract is contingent upon
compliance with the following requirements of matrimonial law and the
law on civil status: accurate agreement between the contracting
partners, marriageability of the parties, involvement of a marriage
registrar, compliance with formal requirements and absence of any bars
to marriage (prohibitive impediment). Marriageability of the parties
means the legal capacity to contract marriage and having reached the
age of consent to marriage. The legal capacity to contract marriage
complies with the general rules of legal capacity; those with full
legal incapacity are not allowed to marry, those with limited capacity
may marry with the consent of their legal guardian. Marriageability
depends on the age of the parties, men have to have completed their
nineteenth and women their sixteenth year. For the marriage ceremony
the spouses have to be present in person and at the same time; the
ceremony takes place before a marriage registrar of the district where
the wedding takes place and in the presence of two witnesses (civil
marriage is compulsory in Austria). Public Notice is no longer
required. Prohibitive impediments in the narrow sense are blood
relationship (lineal consanguinity, between siblings of first grade
and half-siblings), Adoption and bigamy, prohibitive impediments in
the wider sense are derived from Matrimonial Law).
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During the last decades the number of marriages in Austria has
steadily declined (1960: 58,508; 1970: 52,773; 1980: 46,435; 1990:
45,212).
!Literature
H. Koziol and R. Welser, Grundriss des buergerlichen
Rechts, vol. 2, %%sup 9/%1991.
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