common-law marriage
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Only eight states recognize common-law marriage, and California is not one of them.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024
He married four times, always to dancers, and lived with a fifth in a common-law marriage.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2022
Murray said the bad blood is rooted in a common-law marriage between his sister and Sottile’s brother.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2017
If you like good food, civil unrest, high art, common-law marriage, beautiful architecture and endemic corruption: bienvenue!
From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2017
The "common-law" marriage, by the way, is not, so far as I can determine, the English common law, nor ever was.
From Popular Law-making by Stimson, Frederic Jesup
