> Intermarriage is usually meant as a marriage between 2 cousins or > such. I had an aunt who married a cousin who had been adopted into > the family but it was considered an intermarriage none the less. > Hope this helps clarify for all. Sincerely P.Bizjak > > Lbluelady4@aol.com "Intermarriage: In the popular sense, this term denotes the contracting of a marriage relation between two persons considered as members of different nations, tribes, families, etc., as, between the soverigns of two different countries, between an American and an alien, between Indians of different tribes, between the scions of different clans or families. But, in law, it is sometimes used (and with propriety) to empahsize the mutuality of the marriage contract and as importing a reciprocal engagement by which each of the parties "marries" the other. Thus, in a pleading, instead of averring that "the plaintiff was married to the defendant," it would be proper to allege that "the parties intermarried" at such a time and place." pg 952, Black's Law Dictionary, 4th ed, 1951. Note, for the record, that the legal definitions specifically EXCLUDE in-family marriages. Cheryl singhals@erols.com