Once upon a time, people could marry each other and create a legal relationship simply by agreeing to marry, without getting a https://brightwomen.net/es/mujeres-puertorriquenas/ licence from the government, the publishing of banns by the church, or having a particular kind of ceremony. Because the rights between the spouses came from principles established by the common law, these became known as common-law marriagesmon-law marriages were valid in England until the Marriage Act of 1753, better known by its full flowery name, An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage.

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