A formal agreement between two people to enter into a marriage.
a betrothal in those days was as binding as a marriage contract
Example sentencesExamples
- Marriage contracts and ceremonies are the affairs of families and not of individuals.
- Prenuptial agreements are now harder to break than marriage contracts.
- Antony had married Octavian's sister but had also formed some sort of marriage contract with Cleopatra.
- On the basis of a marriage contract, the Habsburgs claimed the Hungarian throne.
- A bond dated November 28, 1582 stated that William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway entered into a marriage contract.