The assembly had already approved a key article that redefined marriage as a contract between two people rather than between a man and a woman.
"If courts create their own arbitrary definition of marriage as a mere legal contract and cut marriage off from its cultural, religious and natural roots, then the meaning of marriage is lost, and the institution is weakened, " he said.
In such a setting the rule that marriage was necessarily a contract terminated only by the death of one of the spouses was not only moral but socially necessary.
Moreover, having once been Cambara's "husband" on paper and having "lived" with her in confined spaces, first as children growing up, then as a couple who entered into a contract of the marriage-of-convenience kind, Zaak has his partisan views.
Marriage is a contract, they said, and the legislature sets the terms of that contract.
"For 5, 000 years, every culture and every religion -- not just Christianity -- has defined marriage as a contract between men and women, " Warren wrote in a newsletter to his congregation.
Courts in England and Wales see marriage as an institution, not a contract.
Some Muslim Britons contract an Islamic marriage (but not a civil one) and then fail to confer on the bride the marriage settlement that would be obligatory in say, Pakistan.
Marriage, as it is commonly viewed in society, is more than just a legal contract.
The union can last for a few hours, days, months or years and when the contract ends so does the marriage.
The nikah mut'ah consists of a verbal or written contract in which both parties agree the length of time and conditions for the marriage.
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