Formal requisites—Marriage license.
Section 7
SEC. 7. Formal requisites—Marriage license.—With the exception of the marriages of an exceptional character authorized in Chapter II of this Act, no marriage shall be solemnized in the Philippine Islands without a license first being issued by the municipal secretary of the municipality where the female has her habitual residence, or by the clerk of the Municipal Court if residing in the City of Manila. Said officials shall issue the proper license if each of the contracting parties swears separately before them or before any public official authorized to administer oaths or any priest or minister authorized to solemnize marriage, to an application in writing setting forth that such party has the necessary qualifications for contracting marriage in conformity with this Act. Such application shall in so far as possible contain the following data: (a) Full name of the contracting party. (b) Place of birth. (c) Age, date of birth. (d) Civil status (single, widow or widower, or divorced). (e) If divorced, how and when the previous marriage was dissolved. (f) Present residence. (g) Degree of relationship of contracting parties. (h) Full name of father. (i) Residence of father. (j) Full name of mother. (k) Residence of mother. (l) Full name and residence of guardian or person having charge (in case the contracting party has neither father nor mother and is under the age of twenty years, if a male, or eighteen years, if a female).