subject: Conditions In Restraint of Marriage [print this page] The named person, however, must not be one who may be in a position to profit by withholding consent. Hostility or enmity toward a certain family may be the subject of a valid restriction, and a clause in the WILL pro viding that any legacy shall be forfeited if the legatee shall marry any member of the "Beelzebub" family has been held to be valid. A proper clause, containing a limitation upon and not a restraint against marriage, would be one providing for a bequest to a son as long as he shall not be married to a person not born into or not an adherent to a particular faith. This is another area where laws vary from state to state and your lawyer will tell you just what you may and may not do.
