Marriage Conditions under Spanish and Russian law

Abstract

There is no universal juridical definition of marriage neither in the Civil Code of the Kingdom of Spain nor in the Family Code of Russian Federation. But the definitions of marriage proposed in Spanish and Russian literature are almost similar and can be confined to the following: marriage is a monogamy union of a man and a woman subject to special conditions provided by the statute of law.All the special conditions and impediments of marriage prescribed by the Civil Code of the Kingdom of Spain and the Family Code of Russian Federation are studied in details in this article.Summing up all the ideas presented in the article we can come to the conclusion that marriage conditions under Spanish and Russian law are quite alike except the novelty of the Spanish legislation relative to same-sex marriages and absence of vested rule of the impediment of marriage by the reason of legal incapacity in Civil Code of the Kingdom of Spain.

Keywords

• marriage conditions
• impediments of marriage
• same-sex marriages
• marriage age