thereto, or when such consent was given in an unconscious state or under duress.
82. Ecclesiastical and religious marriages contracted before the 20th of December, 1917, shall be deemed to be void, if the conditions and forms set forth in Sections 3, 5, 12, 20, 28, 31 of the Civil Laws then in effect (Compiled Statutes of the Russian Empire, Vol. X, Part 1, ed. 1914) were not complied with.
Note. Marriages referred to in the preceding section, if contracted in violation of Section 23, Vol. X, Part 1, Compiled Statutes, ed. 1914, then in effect, shall be deemed valid, unless the parties to the marriage be relatives in the direct ascending and descending lines or full or half brothers and sisters.
83. Upon the rendering of a decree declaring the annulment of a marriage, the marriage shall be considered void as from the moment of its contraction.
84. Persons whose marriage was annulled may remarry conformably to the general rules relating to marriage.
Chapter IV
Dissolution of Marriage
85. Marriage is dissolved by the death of either party thereto or by a decision of a court adjudging either of the parties dead.
86. Marriage may be dissolved by divorce during the lifetime of the parties thereto.
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