(consent to marriage)
111consensual marriage — /kansenshuwal maeraj/ Marriage resting simply on consent per verba de praesenti, between competent parties. See also common law marriage …
112consensual marriage — /kansenshuwal maeraj/ Marriage resting simply on consent per verba de praesenti, between competent parties. See also common law marriage …
113companionate marriage — Either an illicit relationship or a relationship based upon a marriage which the parties have, by antenuptial contract or arrangement, sought to control so as to render the marriage terminable at pleasure, with consent, or at some future time. 35 …
114companionate marriage — ☆ companionate marriage n. a proposed system of trial marriage in which the couple would postpone having children and could be divorced by mutual consent, until a final decision to stay married is reached …
115age of consent — Date: 1504 the age at which one is legally competent to give consent especially to marriage or to sexual intercourse …
116age of consent — age of con·sent kən sent n the age at which one is legally competent to give consent esp. to marriage or to sexual intercourse …
117MORGANATIC MARRIAGE — is a union permitted to German princes who, forbidden to marry except with one of equal rank, may ally themselves with a woman of inferior status, their children being legitimate but not eligible for the succession; the marriages of British… …
118age of consent — An arbitrary age fixed by statute without reference to physical development, varying in American jurisdictions from ten to eighteen years, to denote the time of her life at which a female may consent to sexual intercourse. 44 Am J1st Rape § 19.… …
119Gretna Green marriage — Brit. Informal. marriage without parental consent; elopement. [1860 65] * * * …
120companionate marriage — noun A marriage in which the partners decide not to have children, and to reserve the right to divorce amicably with mutual consent …
