marriage contract

NOUN
  1. a prenuptial agreement or contract
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How To Use marriage contract In A Sentence

  • There is then, a disparity between the legally recognized marriage contract and the ceremonial agreement entered into by most of the participants.
  • In the event, as historians have observed, the spark was trivial - a man's signature on his marriage contract.
  • After a few months, dependent on the term determined upon in the marriage contract, the young husband returns to his father-in-law's house, to whose family he is now considered to belong, and takes up his permanent residence there. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
  • Called the ‘nikah-namah,’ it is the signing of the marriage contract in front of witnesses.
  • Also adds in idealized, implied consent: we must have consented to those beginnings through a constitution, a marriage contract, an employment relationship, or the like. WIPIP at Seton Hall part 3
  • Upon signing a marriage contract, if the lawyer asked to kiss the bride-to-be's hand, she could allow him to do so—after a rapid glance at her mother and her fiance to check she had their approval. A Nation Holding Out for a Hero
  • Naturally, things don't proceed quite as planned, with emotional pratfalls complicating the addled pair's marriage contract.
  • A marriage contract requires an offer and acceptance before witnesses.
  • Sometimes the texts are almost swallowed up by the luscious illustration surrounding them, as in the early sixteenth-century Christian Book of Hours (Roman Use), or the sixteenth-century Persian Legends of the Prophets, or the stunningly ornate eighteenth-century Italian ketubah (marriage contract), obviously meant to be framed and displayed rather than read and referred to. The New York Public Library: All That Is Godly Must Glitter
  • The cicisbeo was often chosen by common agreement of husband and wife when drawing up the marriage contract.
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