{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:521","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Marriage According to Custom","number":"521","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/521/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK II - FAMILY","title":"TITLE I. - BONDS OF RELATIONSHIP BY CONSANGUINITY AND BY AFFINITY.","chapter":"Chapter 3. - Celebration of Marriage","section":null,"paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A customary marriage shall take place when a man and a woman perform such rites as constitute a permanent union between such man and woman under the rules of the community to which they belong or to which one of them belongs.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/521/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":145,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/145/?article=521&paragraph=lead#article-521-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}