Article 76.

No marriage license shall be necessary when a man and a woman who have attained the age of majority and who, being unmarried, have lived
together as husband and wife for at least five years, desire to marry each other. The contracting parties shall state the foregoing facts in an affidavit before
any person authorized by law to administer oaths. The official, priest or minister who solemnized the marriage shall also state in an affidavit that he took
steps to ascertain the ages and other qualifications of the contracting parties and that he found no legal impediment to the marriage. (n)

Article 77. In case two persons married in accordance with law desire to ratify their union in conformity with the regulations, rites, or practices of any
church, sect, or religion it shall no longer be necessary to comply with the requirements of Chapter 1 of this Title and any ratification so made shall merely
be considered as a purely religious ceremony. (23)

Article 78. Marriages between Mohammedans or pagans who live in the non-Christian provinces may be performed in accordance with their customs, rites
or practices. No marriage license or formal requisites shall be necessary. Nor shall the persons solemnizing these marriages be obliged to comply with
article 92.

However, twenty years after approval of this Code, all marriages performed between Mohammedans or pagans shall be solemnized in accordance with the
provisions of this Code. But the President of the Philippines, upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, may at any time before the expiration of
said period, by proclamation, make any of said provisions applicable to the Mohammedan and non-Christian inhabitants of any of the non-Christian
provinces. (25a)

Article 79. Mixed marriages between a Christian male and a Mohammedan or pagan female shall be governed by the general provision of this Title and not
by those of the last preceding article, but mixed marriages between a Mohammedan or pagan male and a Christian female may be performed under the
provisions of the last preceding article if so desired by the contracting parties, subject, however, in the latter case to the provisions of the second paragraph
of said article. (26)