All persons desirous of contracting marriage shall apply to any of the persons authorized to perform it as per the preceding section. The person before whom application is made, shall examine the applicant under oath as to the legal capacity of the contracting parties. Such sworn declaration shall be reduced to writing, and must state the full name, age, civil status, profession or occupation, nature and domicile of each of the contracting parties, and of their respective parents, and the relation of consanguinity or affinity, if any there be, between the contracting parties, and should any of the parties have been previously married, it shall be so stated, as well as the manner of disolution, whether by death, annulment or divorce, with the full name of the former spouse, and the date and place where the death occurred, or the court resolving the annulment or divorce and the date of the resolution; as well as the names, age and address of each of the children of the former marriage, if there be any. The declaration shall be sworn to and signed by the applicant before the person to whom the application is made, and for that purpose the persons authorized by this title to celebrate f there be any. The declaration shall be sworn to and signed by the applicant before the person to whom the application is made, and for that purpose the persons authorized by this title to celebrate marriages are hereby authorized to administer oaths to such applicants. History —Civil Code, 1930, § 76.
Puerto Rico Legal Code