He claims there was a common-law marriage and he'll get the coin.

This is exactly our common-law marriage as it exists in various States today.

I took up with him at once the matter of Zoe's common-law marriage.

Douglas thought that the real question was the common-law marriage.

I thought if I lived with my partner the law treated it like a common-law marriage.

He'd entered into common-law marriage with an Indian woman and they'd raised children and grandchildren and made their surname Bonecutter.

Here they lived in a common-law marriage relationship for many years, and two children (one of them Libby) were born to them.

No less indicative is it of a new world that the allowance laws of all the western belligerents recognize common-law marriages.