Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Common Law Marriage, and Its Development, in the United States
Again, the strictly legal aspects of marriage cover a wide area in the field of jurisprudence. Our present con cern, however, is only with the legal effect of informal or irregular marriages by the common law of England and the development of that law in the United States.
Common law marriage may be defined as a marriage which does not depend for its validity upon any religious or civil ceremony but is created by the consent of the parties as any other contract. The term common law marriage, however, is not strictly an accurate one. Some writers on the subject prefer not to call it by that name, and some of those that do, make apologies for it.
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