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Definition of Marital

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the state of marriage. "Married bliss"

Definition of Marital

1. a. Of or pertaining to a husband; as, marital rights, duties, authority.

Definition of Marital

1. Adjective. Pertaining to marriage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Marital

1. pertaining to marriage [adj] - See also: marriage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marital

Literary usage of Marital

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"marriage successively prevailed in Roman law: marriage with marital power (manus), in Ancient Roman law; marriage without marital power, in Imperial Roman ..."

2. Criminal Justice & Community Response to Rape by Joel Epstein (1995)
"The law makes marital rape a specific offense, defining it as follows: (a) Sexual Assault. A person commits a felony of second degree when that person ..."

3. The Estimation of Recent Trends in Fertility and Mortality in Egypt by National Research Council Staff, Committee on Population and Demography, Panel on Egypt (1982)
"In Lower Egypt the decline in marital fertility was about 5 percent, ... Voluntary Control of marital Fertility As a final comment on recent fertility in ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"The marital relation existing between these parties was a civil contract, binding until it should be abrogated, upon both of the spouses. ..."

5. Overview of Addiction Treatment Effectiveness by Mim J. Landry (1996)
"During and in the 2 years after treatment, alcoholic patients and their wives who received behavioral marital therapy couples group in addition to the ..."

6. A History of Germanic Private Law by Rudolf Hübner, Francis Samuel Philbrick, Paul Vinogradoff, William Emanuel Walz (1918)
"The Law of marital Property: (3) The Modern Law. ... Not rarely, also, several systems of marital property were recognized in one and the same district; ..."

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