jactitation of marriage

English

Noun

jactitation of marriage (usually uncountable, plural jactitations of marriage)

(UK, law) A giving out or boasting by a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
  Jactitation of marriage, or the boasting of the existence of a marriage , which never actually took place

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “jactitation of marriage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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