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Void marriage

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-005177

A marriage that is invalid from its inception and creates no marital status, because the law forbids the union. Typical grounds are bigamy, where a prior marriage still exists, and incest, where the spouses are too closely related. Unlike a voidable marriage, it cannot be ratified by the spouses' later conduct, although a court ruling is usually sought to settle property and status.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-005177
FieldLaw
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-005177",
  "term": "Void marriage",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "A marriage that is invalid from its inception and creates no marital status, because the law forbids the union. Typical grounds are bigamy, where a prior marriage still exists, and incest, where the spouses are too closely related. Unlike a voidable marriage, it cannot be ratified by the spouses' later conduct, although a court ruling is usually sought to settle property and status.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/void-marriage/"
}

Record 5,307 of 5,439 in Law terminology (MLC-0107). Request the full dataset.