Any marriage where either of the parties is an idiot or lunatic is null and void.
SECTION 11-40-1
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Persons with gonorrhea may not marry.
42-102 Minimum age; affliction with venereal disease, disqualification. At the time of the marriage the male must be of the age of seventeen years or upward, and the female of the age of seventeen years or upward. No person who is afflicted with a venereal disease shall marry in this state.
Interracial marriages are illegal.
Constitution of Tennessee Article XI: Miscellaneous Provisions: Section 14 The intermarriage of white persons with negroes, mulattoes, or persons of mixed blood, descended from a negro to the third generation inclusive of their living together as man and wife in this State is prohibited. The legislature shall enforce this section by appropriate legislation.
No one may bite off another’s leg
TITLE 11 Criminal Offenses CHAPTER 11-29 Mayhem SECTION 11-29-1 § 11-29-1 Penalty for mutilation or disabling. Every person who shall voluntarily, maliciously or of purpose put out an eye, slit the nose, ear, or lip, or cut off, bite off, or disable any limb or member of another, shall be imprisoned not exceeding twenty (20)…
Adultery or Fornication results in a fine of $500 and/or 6 months in prison.
97-29-1. Adultery and fornication; unlawful cohabitation. If any man and woman shall unlawfully cohabit, whether in adultery or fornication, they shall be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars each, and imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months; and it shall not be necessary, to constitute the offense, that…