Apartheid laws passed by the National Party after 1948 included the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, the Immorality Act, The Population Registration Act, and the Group Areas Act, which prohibited nonwhite males from being in certain areas of the country ( especially at night ) unless they were employed there.

** Apartheid: The South African Citizenship Act suspends the granting of citizenship to British Commonwealth immigrants after 5 years and imposes a ban on mixed marriages.

Mixed marriages between deaf and hearing spouses comprised 65 % of all deaf marriages on the island in the late 19th century, ( higher than the mainland average of 20 %) and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language ( MVSL ) was commonly used by hearing residents as well as deaf ones until the middle of the 20th century.

Interracial marriages had been banned in 1949 by the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949, was an apartheid law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between people of different races.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act of 1968 updated the original legislation to invalidate interracial marriages involving a South African citizen that were contracted in other countries.

( Mixed marriages were then encouraged by the Portuguese Crown, for the sake of settlement.

Mixed marriages are to be discouraged.

Mixed marriages are not to be contracted unless promises are given that the Catholic party is in no danger of perversion, and will strive to convert the non-Catholic party.

Mixed marriages between ethnic groups are common, particularly in urban areas where many different groups live side by side.

On 20 March 1961 the Mixed Armistice Commission decided that " this act by Israel is a breach of the General Armistice Agreement ".

The United Nations observer team's investigation failed to find any evidence indicating who committed the crime, and the Jordanian delegate to the Mixed Commission condemned the act in strong language on October the 14th.

The Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act, 1985 ( Act No. 72 of 1985 ) repealed the provisions of the 1957 act that prohibited interracial sex, and repealed the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

He railed against the lifting of many so-called " petty apartheid " laws such as the law banning interracial sex and marriage ( the race relations act ), mixing of the races ( group areas act ) as well as the allowance of limited political rights to Indians and Coloureds ( Mixed race individuals ).

* Following a complaint by Jordan about the events of March 17, the Mixed Armistice Commission decided that " this act by Israel is a breach of the General Armistice Agreement ".

The negative sanctions applied to core - Negro marriages for core members act as indicators of expected adherence to group norms.

Additionally, the proscription of core - Negro marriages for core families, discussed above, would seem to act as a regulative norm governing subgroups and roles.

" The act prohibited any homosexual or bisexual person from disclosing his or her sexual orientation or from speaking about any homosexual relationships, including marriages or other familial attributes, while serving in the United States armed forces.

Henry VIII tried to extend his father's balancing act between the dynasties for opportunistic interventionism in the Italian Wars, which had unfortunate consequences for his own marriages and the Papal States ; the King furthermore tried to use similar tactics for the " via media " concept of Anglicanism.

This act had the effect of putting a stop to these marriages, so far as England was concerned, and henceforth couples had to travel to Scotland, the nearest point being Gretna Green.

With the act in force, for the first time in British history, all marriages in England and Wales had to occur in their parish church.

Concerns about the act have been raised by supporters of transsexual rights, particularly regarding marriages and civil partnerships.

Her act was considered too risque and her three public, unsuccessful marriages deemed her unfit to perform in front of royalty.

† Civil unions are no longer recognized in Connecticut, where the act creating same-sex marriage converted unions to marriages and repealed the civil union provisions.

Since the passage of the Royal Marriages Act 1772, there have been several instances in which princes of the blood contracted marriages in contravention of that act ( which meant they were not legally married ) and several instances in which the Sovereign withheld the style " Her Royal Highness " from a prince's wife deemed to be unsuitable.

It ordered same-sex marriages read into that act, permitting the plaintiffs, a lesbian couple, to divorce.

Today, smoking has stimulated controversy within the field of moral psychology pertaining to whether it is considered an act of morality or immorality.