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common-law marriage

DEFINITIONS OF: common-law marriage

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n a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony

Type of:
marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union, wedlock
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
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