For almost 150 years, Mexican civil weddings included a reading of the Epístola de Melchor Ocampo, part of the Civil Marriage Law of July 23, 1859. It tells the couple: “nunca se dirán injurias, porque las injurias entre los casados deshonran al que las vierte” (they will never insult each other, because insults between spouses dishonor the one who utters them).
In March 2006, the Chamber of Deputies approved a resolution that urged the states to stop the reading. In 2007, Expansión reported that in some places the text was still read.