Quote Originally Posted by motla68 View Post
This may be of interest to you shikamaru associated with this post of marriage. Here is listings of what states recognize a common-law marriage and which do not:

http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/table_marriage
RECOGNIZE.

1. To know to be something that has been perceived before: recognize a face.
2. To know or identify from past experience or knowledge: recognize hostility.
3. To perceive or show acceptance of the validity or reality of: recognizes the concerns of the tenants.
4. To permit to address a meeting: The club's president recognized the new member.
5. To accept officially the national status of as a new government.
6. To show awareness of; approve of or appreciate: recognize services rendered.
7. To admit the acquaintance of, as by salutation: recognize an old friend with a cheerful greeting.
8. Law. To enter into a recognizance.
9. Biology. To exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate, for example).


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RECOGNIZANCE.

1. Law.
1. An obligation of record that is entered into before a court or magistrate, containing a condition to perform a particular act, such as making a court appearance.
2. A sum of money pledged to assure the performance of such an act.
2. A recognition.
3. Archaic. A pledge; a token.


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If the court doesn't recognize common law marriages .... GREAT!

This means that State (government) is not the superior party (lord paramount) of the marriage agreement.

According to George Gordon, a marriage license (See SERVITUDE) is a three-party general partnership with the State (government) as the superior party.