If a man and a woman who aren’t married go to a hotel/motel and register themselves as married then, according to state law, they are legally married.

You can be legally married by publically introducing a person as your husband or wife 3 times.

Couples must wait at least 72 hours to be married unless the man has raped the woman

The state definition of rape stated that it was a man having sex with a woman he knows not to be his wife.

It is illegal to have sex before you are married.

Before a man asks for a woman’s hand in marriage, he must be “inspected by all the barnyard animals on the young woman’s family’s property, to ensure a harmonious farm life.”