Private law involves disputes between private citizens or entities, for example, contract law, family law and probate laws. ... Australian law states that no person can legally marry until the age of 18, or have sex until the age of 16, and it is socially unacceptable for people to have numerous partners. ... Types of punishment included revenge, social ridicule, ostracism, insulting, spearing (aimed at the leg, but sometimes resulted in death) and death by sorcery. ...

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Amendment 2 received 62 percent of votes of support, denying those in same-sex unions the opportunity to enter into a legally binding marriage contract. ... Social conservatives got their vote after millions of dollars were used for the ballot drive to attempt to keep the court system from legalizing gay marriages in the state of Florida. ...

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The Canterbury Tales, as a whole, exhibit different social conventions of the Fourteenth Century and exploit them for being a kind of facade. ... The Fourteenth Century was a restrictive time based on the social conventions of social hierarchy, gender, and religion. ... The upper class did not interact with the lower class due to their social divisions. ... The Canterbury Tales explores and exploits social conventions through different character's perspectives. Although, these characters are separated by social classes, there are overlapping themes throughout various stories. ...

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An arranged marriage is "a contract between two individuals, brought about by the parents or family of the (individual) getting married, not the involved parties, yet based on mutual consent,"" according to the Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. ... "We live in a culture where marriage for love is the new social norm and the level of well-being in a relationship is measured by romance. ... When a premium is placed on passionate love, its easy to lose objectivity, leading to unrealistic expectations of marriage and often blinding lovers to real-life issues such as financial an...

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Although they were allowed to choose who they wanted to marry, many were persuaded to choose someone of a higher class because their social standing depended solely on their husband's class. ... Husband and wife had the same rights, so everything they owned was equally shared and a marriage contract was often written to show the agreement the man made with the woman (Fell 58). ... The new government changed marriage and instead of getting to decide who they wanted to marry, women were bound by "an economic contract, arranged by the father without need to consult his daughter. ...

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Has marriage stopped to be either a business or profound contract, and become more natural, and household, as our desires change? ... A typical abstain among those contending against permitting same-sex marriage is that doing so would modify a long-standing trans-social meaning of marriage. ...

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Divorce in Muslim American Marriages Divorce is permitted under Islam but there are strong social and religious prescriptions against it. ... A woman may seek a divorce from her husband based on his abrogation of the marital contract. The Islamic marriage contract is equivalent to a prenuptial agreement and can be adjudicated in a court of law. ...

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One area of social concern associated with marriage is that not all people have the right to marry. ... There are a number of other social aspects of marriage are no longer a necessity for today's youth. ... Another possibility is that they may have constructed different, fulfilling sorts of relationships that do not involve a legal contract. ... As he concluded: "They are driving the social renaissance of modern urban life." One of the largest social aspects of marriage itself involve the planning and execution of the wedding itself. ...

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Men's social status and power are much higher and bigger than women. ... In contract, in modern society men and women are equal in law through the efforts of several generations of women. ... Modern parents now share this responsibility together because of social and work constraints. ... In modern society, the social emphasis and degree of concern for women has been an unprecedented increase. Along with the development of social process, it will develop towards in a good direction in the future. ...

• Word Count: 1927
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As a result of this, the Republican Congress drafted into its "Contract with America- a small but noteworthy provision entitled "The Defense of Marriage Act-. ... Eligible for many benefits that a "socially, politically accepted marriage- can receive. Like ( bare with me the list is long), Accidental death benefit for the surviving spouse of a government employee; Appointment as guardian of a minor; Award of child custody in divorce proceedings; Beneficial owner status of corporate securities; Bill of rights benefits for victims and witnesses; Burial of service member's dependents; Certi...

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A Cross Cultural Perspective of polygyny As an institution, polygyny, the social arrangement that permits a man to have more than one wife at the same time, exists in all parts of the world. ... It is always in fact the repetition of marriage contract, entered individually with each wife, establishing an individual relationship between the man and each of his consorts (Benson 1971). ... A multitude of wives, however, may increase not only a man's wealth but also his social importance, reputation and authority, apart from the influence of the number of his children. Hence, we find in man...

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There is a social unrest in America these days regarding the Government's denial of the right to marry to many homosexual. Those completely against gay marriage, mainly conservatives and neo-Christian politicians who are using religious arguments to establish that sexuality is an atrocity. While on ...

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Some of these benefits include: the right to inherit property, the right to adopt children, the right to file joint tax returns, the right to visit one's spouse in the hospital, the right to receive social security when one's spouse dies and the right to have joint health, vehicle and life insurance policies (Same-Sex Marriage: Overview). ...

• Word Count: 2296
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