common-law marriage

English

Noun

common-law marriage (countable and uncountable, plural common-law marriages)

1. A marriage based on the duration of cohabitation rather than formal ceremony.

Related terms

• common law
• common-law

Translations

a marriage based on the duration of cohabitation rather than formal ceremony

• Azerbaijani: vətəndaş nikahı
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 普通法婚姻 (pǔtōngfǎ hūnyīn), 事實婚姻／事实婚姻 (shìshí hūnyīn)

• Dutch: concubinaat (nl) n (Suriname)
• Finnish: avoliitto (fi)
• French: mariage de droit commun m
• German: eheähnliche Gemeinschaft f, Ehe ohne Trauschein f, Konsensehe (de) f, wilde Ehe (de) f (obsolescent)
• Japanese: 事実婚 (じじつこん, jijitsukon)
• Russian: гражда́нский брак (ru) m (graždánskij brak) (most common), сожи́тельство (ru) n (sožítelʹstvo) (legal), факти́ческий брак m (faktíčeskij brak), незарегистри́рованный брак m (nezaregistrírovannyj brak), неформа́льный брак m (neformálʹnyj brak)
• Spanish: unión de hecho f

See also

• live in sin