common-law marriage

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Noun

common-law marriage (countable and uncountable, plural common-law marriages)

1. A marriage based on the duration of cohabitation rather than formal ceremony.

Related terms

• common law
• common-law

Translations

a marriage based on the duration of cohabitation rather than formal ceremony

Azerbaijani: vətəndaş nikahı Chinese: Mandarin: 普通法婚姻 (pǔtōngfǎ hūnyīn), 事實婚姻 / 事实婚姻 (shìshí hūnyīn) Dutch: concubinaat (nl) n (Suriname) Finnish: avoliitto (fi) French: mariage de droit commun m German: eheähnliche Gemeinschaft f, Ehe ohne Trauschein f, Konsensehe (de) f, wilde Ehe (de) f (obsolescent) Hungarian: élettársi viszony/kapcsolat, együttélés (hu), vadházasság (hu) Japanese: 事実婚 (ja) (じじつこん, jijitsukon) Russian: гражда́нский брак (ru) m (graždánskij brak) (most common), сожи́тельство (ru) n (sožítelʹstvo) (legal), факти́ческий брак m (faktíčeskij brak), незарегистри́рованный брак m (nezaregistrírovannyj brak), неформа́льный брак m (neformálʹnyj brak) Spanish: unión de hecho f

See also

• live in sin