A legal marriage is necessary to sustain a dower estate.
To be entitled to it, there must be a legal marriage.
Thus in Massachusetts, for more than fifty years after the Revolution, the guilty party to a complete divorce was absolutely incapable of contracting a legal marriage.
She was sure that the only proof in existence of Mona Forester's legal marriage was at that moment safely lying in the secret compartment of that little table up stairs.
There were certain conditions that had to be satisfied before a legal marriage could be contracted even by citizens.
It was never necessary to a valid marriage that the parties should live together as man and wife, though, as we have seen (section 62), this living together of itself constituted a legal marriage.
For this reason we must, I believe, make the regulations of law as wide as possible, taking care only that mothers and all children must be safeguarded, whether in legal marriage or outside.
Morality may be outraged to any extent provided that law and religion have been invoked in legal marriage.
It is an unquestionable fact, says Professor Bruno Meyer, that far more than the half of sexual intercourse now takes place outside legal marriage.
If we are to regard the age of legal marriage as, on the whole, the age at which the population enters into sexual unions, it is undoubtedly too late.
Would it not have been possible to gratify him, and yet to gain his consent to legal marriage?
He no longer cared on what terms he obtained her--legal marriage or free union--it was indifferent to him.
A conventional woman would of course see the completest evidence of his untrustworthiness in his dislike of legal marriage; but Rhoda knew the idleness of this argument.
Constraining him to legal marriage, would she not lower herself in his estimation, and make the endurance of his love less probable?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legal marriage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
