wedlock


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marriage

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Synonyms for wedlock

the state of being united as husband and wife

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Kgosi Fanuel Mokalake of Modipane also expressed concern over greedy families who still excluded children born out of wedlock from inheriting from their fathers.
He said in recent court papers that the trust "would not benefit any person bought out of wedlock unless that person had lived for a substantial period of time as a regular member of the household".
As she accepted the terms and conditions of her appointment and signed a contract with the government to keep serving in the UC, the wedlock policy does not apply in her case.
Justice Datuk Abdul Rahman Sebli who delivered the judgment held that a Muslim child conceived out of wedlock can bear his or her father's surname instead of 'Abdullah'.
He lied to me when we met that he was a Muslim and I went into wedlock with him believing this.
As per media reports over 250 teachers of different grades are performing their duties in FDE under wedlock policy but they have not been regularized.
Dubai: Dubai Court of Appeal upheld a prison sentence to a maid who tried to sell her two-week-old baby daughter conceived out of wedlock for Dh10,000.
Washington DC, [USA] Aug 22 ( ANI ): Hollywood actor Hilary Swank has entered into wedlock with her boyfriend Philip Schneider.
According to Eurostat, in 2016 the number of babies born outsideof wedlock jumped to 19.1 per cent, a 2.5 per cent rise over the previous year.
Ministry of Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) and Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) both have miserably failed to resolve deputationists issue and after many years, the teachers who joined schools in the federal capital under the wedlock policy are yet to be regularized.
Summary: The duo was also referred to the court for having consensual sex out of wedlock.
But it is perhaps safe to assume that the bodies of these newborns were either left because their families were unable to provide for them or these babies were born out of wedlock. In either case, it is unfortunate that these bodies were left in the open to decay.
He suggests that government establishes a counseling department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs to counsel couples desirous of wedlock and also to employ services of qualified and professional counselors.
The men said the act was conA[degrees]senA[degrees]sual and all three later faced charges that they had sex out of wedlock and drank without a licence.
Three years after the video was made, social media trolls accused the shamed starlet of having a baby out of wedlock with the man in the video.