marriage contract

collocation in English

meaningsofmarriageandcontract

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marriage
noun
uk
/ˈmær.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈmer.ɪdʒ/
a legally accepted relationship between two people in which they live together, or the official ceremony that results ...
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contract
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.trækt/us
/ˈkɑːn.trækt/
a legal document that states and explains a formal agreement between two different people or groups, or the ...
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(Definition ofmarriageandcontractfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmarriage contract

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Amarriagecontract(ketubbah) usually included stipulations that attempted to formalize this new status.
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Entering into a 'marriagecontract' involved entering into an already familiar terrain of correlative rights and duties.
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We do not know the wedding date, or about themarriagecontractand the dowry.
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Nonetheless, the overall picture is still one in which increasingly fewer couples felt the need to draw up amarriagecontract.
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Table 4 gives age at marriage where inheritance status is definitely known because stated in amarriagecontract.
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They persuade a distant kinsman of the woman to secretly set up amarriagecontractand at night, to the sound of drums, break down the door and enter.
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It appears that there was a clear trend toward a more thorough check of the legal capability of those who were entering into amarriagecontract.
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The husband could, through a special provision inserted in themarriagecontract, relinquish his right of repudiation or transfer it to his wife (tefviz-i ^ nikah).
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Words pronounced in front of witnesses could not be retracted, however, and if the canonical waiting period (iddet) was over, a newmarriagecontracthad to be drawn.
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Indeed, a few of the records bear explicit marginal notes indicating either that the marriage involved people residing elsewhere or that themarriagecontractwas agreed on in another neighborhood.
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The first mention of a written document adduced as evidence for the legal capability of the bride to enter into amarriagecontractdates from 1880.
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It would seem rather like writing a divorce settlement into amarriagecontract.
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My point is whether it is right to advertise themarriagecontractas a penalty-free contract.
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Let us not forget that themarriagecontractbetween the parties connotes that they are in bed together by agreement.
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It is still for her to discharge her legal rights by amarriagecontract.
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I am quite prepared for the courts to judge on the breakdown of amarriagecontractas a civil matter.
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In amarriagecontractwe are taught that the contract is for richer, for poorer, for better, for worse.
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Some would say that themarriagecontractwas sacred.
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