JACTITATION OF MARRIAGE - Eng. eccl. law. The boasting by an individual that he or she has married another, from which it may happen that they will acquire the reputation of being married to each other.
This used to form the basis of an ancient legal petition called "jactitation of marriage" wherein a person could be ordered by the courts to cease claims of being married to a certain person when, in fact, they were not married.
In such a case, in order to prevent the common reputation of their marriage that might ensue, the procedure is by suit of jactitation of marriage, in which the petitioner alleges that the respondent boasts that he or she is married to the petitioner, ...
"An action must not be maintained for restitution of conjugal rights, loss of consortium, criminal conversation or jactitation of marriage."
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 See also: Law, Court, Marriage, Public, Were
  
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