NOUN
- a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony
How To Use common-law marriage In A Sentence
- It seemed he had been married twice before, in a manner of speaking: he had been "handfast" to Janet Beaton, and had lived in common-law marriage with the Norwegian woman. Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
- On the day she finally decided to tell me about her own tattoos, Rosalina Malungana, the Swiss Mission-educated woman who, as we saw in chapter 3, reminisced so romantically about her common-law marriage to a Portuguese truck driver, acknowledged one source of conflict in their relationship that stemmed from Rosalina's desire to befriend her new non-Christian and nonliterate neighbors in Chibuto: Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
