marriage performed, recorded, and recognized by a government official
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Edmund Leighton, The Wedding Register A civil marriage is a marriage performed, recorded, and recognized by a government official. Such a marriage may be performed by a religious body and recognized by the state, or it may be entirely secular, in which it is known as a secular marriage.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).