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To: Neocon who wrote (416659)6/19/2003 12:07:02 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Therefore redundant.

but marriage constitutes an enforceable contract, and the dissolution of a marriage raises issues that can often only be adjudicated by the courts.

Fine. Then at least have the decency to invent a new word for it. It is indecent to take a word that represents a 5000 year western institution and pour an alien meaning into it.

That there is a ceremony attached is merely customary, and irrelevant to the main point.


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