Text of the provision
Art. 25. The local civil registrar concerned shall enter all applications for marriage licenses filed with him in a registry book strictly in the order in which the same are received. He shall record in said book the names of the applicants, the date on which the marriage license was issued, and such other data as may be necessary.
(n)
Family Code of the Philippines, Executive Order No. 209, approved July 6, 1987. The Code took effect on August 3, 1988 (Republic v. Orbecido III, G.R. No. 154380, October 5, 2005). Reproduced in full. The notation (n) indicates a new provision with no direct Civil Code antecedent.
What this article means
Every marriage license application must be entered in a registry book, strictly in the order received, recording the applicants' names, the date the license issued, and other necessary data.
This registry is what later lets a court verify whether a license was genuinely issued to a given couple — the exact question at the center of cases finding a marriage void under Article 35(3) for want of a real license, as opposed to one bearing a number that was never actually issued to the parties.
Related provisions
- Article 35 — marriages void for lack of a genuine license.
- Article 23 — the officer's parallel transmittal duty.
Cases interpreting this article
- Authorities on the evidentiary use of the Article 25 registry book will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.