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Marriage

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

marriage


1 : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship recognized and sanctioned by and dissolvable only by law see also divorce
2 : the ceremony containing certain legal formalities by which a marriage relationship is created




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