contracting marriage

Since the applicants were two men, they lacked the capacity for contracting marriage.

One of the parties, usually the woman, has been abducted with the view of contracting marriage.

The program continued to progress and, at the end of 1995, was very close to becoming the mainstream procedure of contracting marriage.

Contracting marriages at this early age was quite common and involved a formal ceremony, including contracts signed before a notary.

By contracting marriages with the local Jat community, they also became Jat.

By contracting marriages with Jats, they to have now become Jats.

Cattle play a central role in social life, used in contracting marriages and performing rituals, and exchanged as gifts.

Foreign women contracting marriage with Italian men before 27 April 1983 automatically became Italian citizens.

Although marriage between cross-cousins was the norm until recently, this has changed significantly, with Vedda women even contracting marriages with their Sinhalese and Moor neighbours.

Historically, the Áenach Tailteann was a time for contests of strength and skill, and a favored time for contracting marriages and winter lodgings.

Juan de Haro sought to expand the influence of the lordship of Biscay, contracting marriage with the niece of the king of Aragon.

An example is when the parties contracting marriage are living in a remote area inaccessible to any viable means of transport, such that it renders impossible the acquisition of a marriage license.

(Some British civilians interned by the Japanese during the Second World War were held to be legally married after contracting marriages under circumstances where the formal requirements could not be met.)

The Catholic Church therefore did all in its power to hinder baptised Catholics from contracting marriage with those outside the church, and who did not recognize the sacramental character of the union on which they were entering.

As early as the time of Constantine I, especial insistence was put upon the obligation to hear Mass on Sundays and Holy Days, to receive the sacraments and to abstain from contracting marriage at certain seasons.

It has to be noted, however, that the legal age for contracting marriage in France at the time was 18 for a boy and 15 for a girl, with the consent of their parents, or 21 without the consent of father and mother.

In particular it asked Bolivian authorities to address "the low and unequal legal minimum ages for contracting marriage," as well as the physical abuse of children (including abuse by police), the number of children living without parents or guardians, and the manifold failings of the juvenile justice system.