Table of prohibited degrees of consanguinity and affinity
A man shall not marry his—
1. Paternal grand-father’s mother.
2. Paternal grand-mother’s mother.
3. Maternal grand-father’s mother.
4. Maternal grand-mother’s mother.
5. Paternal grand-mother.
6. Paternal grand-father’s wife.
7. Maternal grand-mother.
8. Maternal grand-father’s wife.
9. Mother or step-mother.
10. Father's sister or step-sister.
11. Mother’s sister or step-sister.
12. Sister or step-sister.
13. Brother’s daughter or step-brother’s daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a brother or
step-brother.
14. Sister’s daughter or step-sister’s daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a sister or
step-sister.
15. Daughter or step-daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of either.
16. Son's daughter or step-son’s daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a son or step-son.
17. Wife of son or step-son, or of any direct lineal descendant of a son or step-son.
18. Wife of daughter’s son or of step-daughter’s son, or of any direct lineal descendant of a
daughter or step-daughter.
19. Mother of daughter’s husband.
20. Mother of son’s wife.
21. Mother of wife’s paternal grand-father.
22. Mother of wife’s paternal grand-mother.
23. Mother of wife’s maternal grand-father.
24. Mother of wife’s maternal grand-mother.
25. Wife’s paternal grand-mother.
26. Wife’s maternal grand-mother.
27. Wife’s mother or step-mother.
28. Wife’s father’s sister.
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29. Wife’s mother’s sister.
30. Father’s brother’s wife.
31. Mother’s brothers wife
32. Brother’s son’s wife.
33. Sister’s son’s wife.
A woman shall not marry her—
1. Paternal grand-father's father.
2. Paternal grand-mother’s father.
3. Maternal grand-father’s father.
4. Maternal grand-mother’s father.
5. Paternal grand-father.
6. Paternal grand-mother’s husband.
7. Maternal grand-father.
8. Maternal grand-mother’s husband.
9. Father or step-father.
10. Father’s brother or step-brother.
11. Mother’s brother or step-brother.
12. Brother or step-brother.
13. Brother’s son or step-brother’s son, or any direct lineal descendant of a brother or
step-brother.
14. Sister’s son or step-sister’s son, or any direct lineal descendant of a sister or step-sister.
15. Son or step-son, or any direct lineal descendant of either.
16. Daughter’s son or step-daughter’s son, or any direct lineal descendant of a daughter or
step-daughter.
17. Husband of daughter or of step-daughter, or of any direct lineal descendant of a daughter or
step-daughter.
18. Husband of son’s daughter or of step-son’s daughter, or of any direct lineal descendant of a
son or step-son.
19. Father of daughter’s husband.
20. Father of son’s wife.
21. Father of husband’s paternal grand-father.
22. Father of husband’s paternal grand-mother.
23. Father of husband’s maternal grand-father.
24. Father of husband’s maternal grand-mother.
25. Husband’s paternal grand-father.
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26. Husband’s maternal grand-father.
27. Husband’s father or step-father
20. Brother of husband’s father.
29. Brother of husband’s mother.
30. Husband’s brothers’ son, or his direct lineal descendant.
31. Husband’s sister’s son, or his direct lineal descendant.
32. Brother’s daughter’s husband.
33. Sister’s daughter’s husband.
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NOTE.—In the above table the words “brother” and “sister” denote and sister of the whole as well as half
blood. Relationship by step means relationship by marriages.