Art. 101. The following marriages are void:

1. Those celebrated between the persons referred to in Articles 83 and 84, except in cases of dispensation.

2. Those contracted by error as to the person, or by compulsion or intimidation, which avoids the consent.

3. Those contracted by the abductor with the abducted while she is in his power.

4. Those which are not celebrated by a competent municipal judge, or by the person who should act in his place, and without the presence of the witnesses required by Article 100.

Art. 102. An action for the purpose of procuring the nullity of the marriage must be instituted by the spouses, by the department of public prosecution, or by any person whatsoever who may have any interest therein.

Cases of abduction, error, force, or intimidation are excepted, in which cases only the spouse who may have suffered therefrom may institute it; and that of impotency, in which the action appertains to either spouse and to the persons who may have an interest in the annulment.

The action lapses and marriages are confirmed in the respective cases if the spouses having lived together during six months after the error has disappeared or after the force or the cause of intimidation has ceased, or if, after the abducted party having recovered liberty, he or she should not have instituted a suit for nullity during said period.

Art. 103. The civil tribunals shall take cognizance of the suits for annulments of marriages celebrated in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, and shall adopt the measures indicated in Article 68, and shall render final judgment.