CHAPITRE VIII DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE Art. 115 new. (Law 83-800 of 2-8-1983) - Marriage is dissolved: - by the death of the spouses; by divorce. • OTHERS TEXTS APPLICABLE TO MARRIAGE MISCELLANEOUS Law n° 64-381 of October 7, 1964 relating to miscellaneous provisions applicable in matters governed by the laws on… marriage. CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS Art. 1 - The new laws concerning name, civil status, marriage, divorce and legal separation, paternity and filiation, adoption, inheritance, gifts inter vivos and wills, shall take effect, within a maximum period of two years, from their promulgation, on a date to be fixed by decree (the law entered into force on 8 December 1964 (decree n° 64-478 of 8/12/64)). From the date when these laws will enter into force, laws, regulations and customs that were previously applicable will stop being applicable in the matters that are the subject of the said laws. CHAPTER II TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS Art. 2 – The following transitional provisions will be applicable in matters evoked in the preceding article, from the date of entering into force of the special laws governing the said subject matters. SECTION 3 – CONCERNING MARRIAGE Art. 10 – Marriages contracted in conformity with the tradition, before the entering into force of the new law, and properly declared at the civil status registry or noted by judgment transcribed on the civil status registers, subject to the following reservations, have the same implications as if they were contracted under the said law. Art. 11 - The validity, in essence, of marriages referred to in the preceding article will be appreciated in conformity with the customs in force at the epoch when they were contracted. Art. 14.- Marriages celebrated in accordance with previous written law will remain governed, as regards their pecuniary implications, by the provisions resulting either from the marriage contract or from the old law. 13