common law marriage

  • 71law — law1 lawlike, adj. /law/, n. 1. the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision. 2 …

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  • 72marriage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Legal union Nouns 1. marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union; intermarriage, nuptial tie, married state, bed and board, cohabitation, POSSLQ (person of the opposite sex sharing living quarters), wedded… …

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  • 73marriage — Legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. Singer v. Kara, 11 Wash.App. 247, 522 P.2d 1187, 1193. Marriage, as distinguished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, is the legal status, condition, or… …

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  • 74marriage — Legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. Singer v. Kara, 11 Wash.App. 247, 522 P.2d 1187, 1193. Marriage, as distinguished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, is the legal status, condition, or… …

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  • 75irregular marriage — in Scots family law there were originally three ways of becoming married without satisfying the necessary formalities: de praesenti consent, marriage subsequente copula and marriage by habit and repute. Only the last of the three remains. A… …

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  • 76common — commonness, n. /kom euhn/, adj., commoner, commonest, n. adj. 1. belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question: common property; common interests. 2. pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or… …

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  • 77marriage brokerage — noun a business that arranges marriage contracts • Syn: ↑marriage mart • Hypernyms: ↑brokerage, ↑brokerage firm, ↑securities firm * * * noun also marriage brokage …

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  • 78marriage — An institution; the foundation of the family and of society. 35 Am J1st Mar § 8. The status or relation of a man and a woman legally united as husband and wife. Baker v State, 86 Neb 775, 126 NW 300. A personal relation arising out of a civil… …

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  • 79marriage per verba de futuro cum copula — A common law marriage through carnal intercourse after an agreement to be married in the future, the law presuming a present consent from such agreement and intercourse. 35 Am J1st Mar § 42 …

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  • 80Law of Israel — combines common law and civil law.ources of Israeli lawIsraeli law draws on the following sources: *The Mecelle (מג לה) Ottoman casuistic Muslim law (matrimonial and Real Estate Registration) *British common law *Israeli codification (torts and… …

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