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Noun: common-law marriage
  1. (law) a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony
    "In some jurisdictions, couples in a common-law marriage have similar rights to those in traditional marriages"

Derived forms: common-law marriages

Type of: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union, wedlock

Encyclopedia: Common-law marriage