Sentence examples for contract marriages from inspiring English sources

Defeated in 1488, Francis was forced to sign the Treaty of Le Verger, in which he undertook to contract marriages for his daughters Anne and Isabelle only with the French king's permission, thereby relieving France of the danger that Brittany might fall to some foreign power.

Most Normans continued to contract marriages with other Normans or other continental families rather than with the English.

Those social and familial pressures are great enough to force many LGBT Chinese into "contract marriages" -- fake marriages between gay men and lesbian women in order to placate their parents.

"There was practically no difference between contract marriages and nikah sirri; despite 'contracts' wives have virtually no protection, with the contract merely lasting for the duration of the marriage," the Jakarta Post explained in an editorial calling for the site to be shut down.

"It's a contract, marriage," she says finally.

Advocates of contract marriage argue that extending the role of choice in reproduction and in the families we make will empower women.

This comes out in the detailed accounts he gives, in his lectures on jurisprudence, of how notions of property, contract, marriage, and punishment have arisen and changed in various societies.

In the UK and US, it focused on the promotion of equal contract, marriage, parenting, and property rights for women.

The judge also filed a constitutional challenge against the same-sex marriage law with the Constitutional Court based on Article 32 of the Constitution that contains the phrase "Men and women have the right to contract marriage with full juridical equality".

Consistent with the decline of contracted marriages, the incidence of divorce also rose.

Contracts, marriages, waivers of responsibility, and evaluations of varying sorts are considered void if made because of coercion.