单词 | marriage brokage |
释义 | marriage brokagen. Now rare. = marriage brokerage n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [noun] > consideration given for marriage brokagea1721 marriage brokerage1847 a1721 T. Vernon Chancery Cases (1726) I. 412 The Bill was to be relieved against a Marriage Brocage Bond. 1787 W. P. Williams Wiliams's Rep. High Court Chancery (ed. 4) 3 75/2 (note) Cases of direct marriage brocage. 1967 K. Diplock in Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 2 601 If an agreement, though contrary to English law, e.g. a marriage brokage contract, is not illegal by its proper law, it cannot properly be said to be void and thus not a contract at all. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1721 |
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