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Definition of Civil union
1. Noun. A voluntary union for life (or until divorce) of adult parties of the same sex. "Parties to a civil union have all the same benefits, protections, and responsibilities under Vermont law as spouses in a marriage"
Definition of Civil union
1. Noun. A legal union similar to marriage, established to allow similar rights to same-sex couples, and in some jurisdictions opposite-sex couples, as partners in traditional marriages have. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Civil Union
Literary usage of Civil union
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on by Thomas Rutherforth (1832)
"Thi* difference arises either from civil union, or from civil laws. Some of the
rights of mankind, when they are united into a civil society, ..."
2. Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on by Thomas Rutherforth (1832)
"This difference arises either from civil union, or from civil laws. Some of the
rights of mankind, when they are united into a civil society, ..."
3. The Select Works of William Penn. by William Penn (1782)
"ONE PROJECT FOR THE - GOOD OF ENGLAND Z THAT IS, Our civil union is our CIVIL
SAFETY. Humbly dedicated to the GREAT COUNCIL, the PARLIAMENT oF ENGLAND. ..."
4. A Treatise of Universal Jurisprudence by John Penford Thomas (1829)
"CHAPTER H. OF THE MODIFICATIONS EFFECTED BY THE LAWS OF civil union. § I. IT has
been shown in the first chapter of this General na- book, that the rights ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1756)
"It is not an authority given to the people by the civil union, but it is what
remained of natural Liberty? exr empted from the obligations of that union. ..."
6. On Local Disturbances in Ireland, and on the Irish Church Question by Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1836)
"With regard to the second case just stated, that is, where the religious is larger
than the civil union, and comprehends several states, the attempts made ..."
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