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Violating Sepulture. 2. To any person by reason of any former marriage whose husband or wife by such marriage has absented himself or herself from his wife or her husband and has been continually remaining without the United States for the space of five years together; nor,

3. To any person by reason of any former marriage which has been pronounced void, annulled or dissolved by the judgment of a competent court, unless such marriage was dissolved upon the ground of adultery committed by such person; nor,

4. To any person by reason of any former marriage with a husband or wife who has been sentenced to imprisonment for life.

§ 6544. Every person guilty of bigamy is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding five years.

§ 6545. Every person who knowingly marries the husband or wife of another, in any case in which such husband or wife would be punishable according to the foregoing provisions, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding five years, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

§ 6646. Persons who, being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are, by the laws of the territory, declared incestuous and void, intermarry with each other, or commit adultery or fornication with each other, are punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison notexceeding ten years.

§ 6547. Every person who is guilty of the detestable and abominable crime against nature, committed with mankind or with a beast, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years.

§ 6548. Any sexual penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime against nature.

§ 6549. Every person has the right to direct the manner in which his body shall be disposed of after his death, and to direct the manner in which any part of his body which becomes separated therefrom during his life time shall be disposed of. The provisions of this chapter do not apply, where such person has given directions for the disposal of his body or any part thereof inconsistent with these provisions.