| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Given the near universality in Christendom of the scope of the Church's medieval marriage law (had to be before a priest), I suspect that later common law marriage rules were put in place as a response to later developments throwing off or ignoring some kinds of authority, civil or religious: the state maybe was playing catch-up after the fact of a few too many people ignoring the law to make it w
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