Deck 5: Marriage

Question 1

An enticement action can be brought against the boyfriend of a wife.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

A declaration of nullification is the Catholic Church's declaration that a divorce is granted.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A putative marriage is a valid marriage except where property and support are concerned.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

One of the requirements of entering into a contract is mental capacity.

Question 5

To consider oneself married without a license is always illegal.

Question 6

Pro se is a Latin term that means void from the very beginning.

Question 7

When a man and a woman live together for a period of time, they are automatically considered to have a common law marriage in all states.

Question 8

Consortium is traditionally defined as a wife's services, companionship, and sexual relations.

Question 9

Consanguinity is a rare blood type.

Question 10

Heart-balm statutes were replaced in at least 25 states by the breach-of-promise action.

Question 11

A marriage that does not meet all the legal requirements is said to be voidable.

Question 12

A religious annulment has no legal standing in a court of law.

Question 13

The promisee is the jilted fiancée.

Question 14

Marriage is technically known as an anomalous contract.

Question 15

The dissolution of a marriage is the same as a divorce.

Question 16

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

Question 17

A tort is a personal wrong committed by one party against another that allows for damages to be paid.

Question 18

Expectation damages are damages that are expected by a defendant.

Question 19

A breach of promise is an action brought by a wronged party to an ecclesiastical court.

Question 20

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

Question 21

_____ are predominant in societies that place great importance on property inheritance or linkages between lineages or in which the elders think the young people are unable to make sound choices.

A) Arranged marriages
B) Civil marriages
C) Putative marriages
D) Common law marriages

Question 22

When one party takes marriage vows without the intent to fulfill the responsibilities of marriage, the marriage is known as a

A) sham marriage
B) heart-balm marriage
C) common law marriage
D) registered partnership

Question 23

Consortium can traditionally be defined as

A) the spouse's services, companionship, and sexual relations
B) an action against anyone who entices a servant away from his or her master
C) a domestic partnership
D) an invalid marriage

Question 24

Reciprocal beneficiaries are individuals who have insurance on one another.

Question 25

Civil unions are

A) same-sex marriages
B) common law marriages
C) sham marriages
D) putative marriages

Question 26

Same-sex marriages are recognized in Vermont and Hawaii.

Question 27

The relationship that falls short of full equal status with marriage but offers some of the benefits of a civil marriage is called a

A) registered partnership
B) polyandry marriage
C) sham marriage
D) putative marriage

Question 28

_____ is a tort that involves a husband's complaining that another man had sexual relations with his wife.

A) Criminal conversation
B) Alienation of affection
C) Negligence
D) Harassment

Question 29

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

Question 30

A marriage that does not meet all the requirements for a valid marriage is very likely a/an

A) voidable marriage
B) arranged marriage
C) common law marriage
D) sham marriage

Question 31

A marriage is technically known as a/an

A) anomalous contract
B) binding contract
C) novel impression
D) annulment

Question 32

Which of the following is NOT a requirement for legally entering into a marriage?

A) financial stability
B) age
C) different sexes
D) mental capacity

Question 33

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

Question 34

The Defense of Marriage Act

A) is designed to allow individual states to decide whether to allow same-sex marriages
B) prohibits couples from filing for divorce
C) insists on the exhaustion of all remedies to keep marriages together
D) None of these choices is correct.

Question 35

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

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

Question 36

An annulment is the recognition by a family that a marriage never existed.

Question 37

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

Question 38

Anything of value-monetary or otherwise-can be described as

A) consideration
B) a tort
C) a contract
D) consortium

Question 39

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

Question 40

A marriage between two people can be a

A) civil marriage
B) polygamy marriage
C) polyandry marriage
D) All of these choices are correct.

Question 41

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

Question 42

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

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

Question 43

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.

Question 44

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

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

Question 45

The _____ was designed to allow individual states to decide separately whether the full faith and credit and equal protection clauses of the United States Constitution allow same-sex marriages.

Question 46

The _____ of the latter part of the nineteenth century removed the majority of wives' legal disabilities.

Question 47

_____ is the historical tort that gave a husband the exclusive right to sexual relations with his wife based on both a need to maintain pure bloodlines for inheritance purposes and the principles of morality.

Question 48

_____ is anything of value, monetary or otherwise.

Question 49

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

Question 50

Historically, the _____ cause of action was brought by a wronged party to an ecclesiastical court.

Question 51

_____ statutes were created as a reaction to a growing distaste for the breach-of-promise action.

Question 52

The Latin term a vinculo matrimonii indicates

A) an absolute divorce
B) a prenuptial agreement
C) Latin wedding vows
D) None of these choices is correct.

Question 53

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.

Question 54

An engaged person who is left at the altar is known as the

A) promisee
B) husband
C) wife
D) promisor

Question 55

Damages that are awarded to put the plaintiff in the same position he or she would have been in if the marriage had taken place are called

A) expectation damages
B) reliance damages
C) road damages
D) consortium damages

Question 56

A/An _____ is the same concept as a marriage but falls short of having full equal status with a marriage.

Question 57

A valid marriage between a man and a woman is known as a

A) monogamous marriage
B) monopoly marriage
C) sham marriage
D) putative marriage

Question 58

_____ are intended to compensate a person for the emotional pain caused by a broken promise.

A) Pain and suffering damages
B) Expectation damages
C) Reliance damages
D) None of these choices is correct.

Question 59

Reciprocal beneficiaries are allowed in

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

Question 60

Laws that bar interracial marriage are known as _____ laws.

Question 61

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

Question 62

In some states, the _____ cause of action still provides that if a spouse has an affair, the injured spouse can sue the other person involved in the affair.

Question 63

A/An _____ is the official recognition by a court of law that a marriage never legally existed.

Question 64

_____ is the practice of being married to more than one person at a time.

Question 65

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 _____.

Question 66

If a marriage is declared _____, the spouses are left unmarried.

Question 67

A party who takes wedding vows without the intent to fulfill the responsibilities of the marriage creates a/an _____ marriage.

Question 68

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.

Question 69

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

Question 70

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

Question 71

The eight requirements for legally entering into a marriage contract are a marriage license; parties' being of different sexes; parties' not already being married; parties' having an acceptable degree of _____; parties' having mental capacity; parties' having the intent to marry; some sort of solemnization ceremony; and an age requirement.

Question 72

Historically, if a woman wearing a negligee walked around in front of her neighbor's husband with the intent to have an affair, the woman could face a/an _____ action in some states.