| 单词 | putative marriage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasputative marriage putative marriage n. (also †marriage putative) Law (originally Ecclesiastical Law) a marriage which though legally invalid was contracted in good faith by at least one of the parties.A putative marriage may have some of the legal consequences of marriage, such as the legitimacy of children. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > unlawful or invalid putative marriage1516 nullity1570 1516 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 388/2 The said pretendit mariage putatiue..wes lauchfullie declarit of na strenth nor effect. 1811 Ld. Meadowbank in Brymner v. Riddell Feb. (Ct. of Session) Here there was a putative marriage, acknowledged by all the friends of both parties, and by the general admission..of the legality of that marriage. 1984 S. M. Cretney Princ. Family Law (ed. 4) 88 In the canon law, some of the harsh consequences of declaring a marriage void were mitigated by the doctrine of the putative marriage, under which a void marriage nevertheless had many of the consequences of a valid marriage. < as lemmas |
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