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putative marriage
noun
, Law.
- a marriage contracted in violation of an impediment, but in good faith on the part of one or both of the contracting persons.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of putative marriage1
First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences
McKinsey’s putative marriage to Trillian produced its first awkward moments when its chief executive, Bianca Goodson, showed up angry at the consultancy’s Sandton headquarters on a January evening in 2016.
From New York Times
Even in the thirteenth century it began to be possible to attach a superior force to marriage verbally formed per verba de præsenti than to one constituted by sexual union, while so many impediments to marriage were set up that it became difficult to know what marriages were valid, an important point since a marriage even innocently contracted within the prohibited degrees was only a putative marriage.
From Project Gutenberg
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