Concubinage definition:
Civil law term for an unmarried couple living nonetheless as husband and wife or, where same-sex relationships are recognized by law, such similar cohabitation relationships.
CONCUBINAGE - This term has two different significations; sometimes it means a species of marriage which took place among the ancients, and which is yet in use in some countries.
Concubinage
Definition - Noun
: the relationship between persons who are cohabiting without the benefit of marriage used esp. in the civil law of Louisiana
compare common-law marriage ...
Some jurisdictions also require that the abductee, the person abducted, be a child or that that the abductor intend to marry or defile the abductee or subject him or her to prostitution or concubinage.
In some states, the abductor must intend to marry or defile the person, the person abducted must be a child, or the abductor must intend to subject the victim to concubinage or prostitution.
or cousin marriage; abolition of the levirate and sororate (customary unions with the wife of a dead brother or the sister of a dead wife) and an increase in widows who did not remarry; the limitation of adoption; and the proscription of concubinage.
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