jactitation of marriage

English

Noun

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

1. (UK, law, historical) A false assertion of being married to another person.
   • 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

References

• “jactitation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.