Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 5 — Protection of Indians
§ 183. Marriage of white men to Indian women; evidence
Statutory text
Whenever the marriage of any white man with any Indian woman, a member of any such tribe of Indians, is required or offered to be proved in any judicial proceeding, evidence of the admission of such fact by the party against whom the proceeding is had, or evidence of general repute, or of cohabitation as married persons, or any other circumstantial or presumptive evidence from which the fact may be inferred, shall be competent.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 50–818 § 3 · 25 Stat. 392
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 183
(Aug. 9, 1888, ch. 818, § 3, 25 Stat. 392.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 9, 1888, ch. 818, § 3, 25 Stat. 392.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That whenever the marriage of any white man with any Evidence of marriage. Indian woman, a member of any such tribe of Indians, is required or offered to be proved in any judicial proceeding, evidence of the admission of such fact by the party against whom the proceeding is had, or evidence of general repute, or of cohabitation as married persons, or any other circumstantial or presumptive evidence from which the fact may be inferred, shall be competent.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Aug. 9, 1888, ch. 818, § 3, 25 Stat. 392.)