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A marriage that does not meet all the requirements may be _____.

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Laws that forbid interracial sexual relations and intermarriage are known as antimiscegenation laws.

A) True
B) False

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A person who marries without dissolving a previous marriage is a/an _____.

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_____ laws barred interracial sexual relations and prohibited racial inter-marriage.


A) Antimiscegenation
B) Alienation
C) Tort
D) Race

E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

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The Latin term _____ means "void from the very beginning."


A) void ab initio
B) pro se
C) veritas
D) mea culpa

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Recognition by a court of law that a marriage never legally existed is called a/an


A) annulment
B) divorce
C) dissolution of marriage
D) declaration of nullification

E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

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A marriage between two people is also known as a civil marriage.

A) True
B) False

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An engaged person who calls off the wedding after the other person put down money for the wedding may have to pay _____ damages.

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Same-sex marriages are recognized in Vermont and Hawaii.

A) True
B) False

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Reciprocal beneficiaries are allowed in


A) Hawaii
B) Virginia
C) Maine
D) Colorado

E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

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Conditions precedent are


A) the essential elements for a marriage
B) the conditions under which a minor can marry
C) the rules of a marriage
D) None of these choices is correct.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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When a couple has been declared not to have been validly married according to the rules of a religious group, the couple has probably received a/an _____.

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Which of the following types of marriage arrangements involves being married to more than one person at one time?


A) bigamy
B) putative
C) civil
D) arranged

E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

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Criminal conversation is a common crime in the twenty-first century.

A) True
B) False

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The marriage of individuals who have a blood relationship to each other would involve questions of


A) consanguinity
B) consortium
C) connection
D) fraud

E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

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When a man and a woman get married in a nonreligious ceremony, the marriage is called a/an _____ marriage.

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Historically, when an engagement was broken, the heartbroken party could seek damages that, if awarded, would provide the plaintiff the same status she would have had if the wedding had taken place. These damages were referred to as _____ damages.

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A man and a woman who present themselves to the world as husband and wife may be considered to have a/an _____ marriage in some states.

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A religious annulment by any religious group


A) has no legal standing
B) has legal standing
C) has the wife in mind
D) has the children in mind

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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A monogamous marriage is a marriage between one man and two wives.

A) True
B) False

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