In the ecclesiastical model of marriage, the interdiction against concubinage is clear. |
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He fled with a bounty on his head and his sisters were abducted and forced into concubinage anyway. |
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Similarly out of joint is the notion that Rachel's example in Genesis 30 would be taken by fundamentalists as justification for concubinage. |
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In the former princely states, as also in the zamindaries till their abolition soon after independence, concubinage was a recognised custom. |
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Gratian ascribed to the concubinage relationship the quality of marital affection which the Roman jurists had reserved for marriage unions. |
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Ruled by her father, her husband or her son, she could be sold into marriage, concubinage or prostitution. |
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She was living in concubinage with the father of her children at the moment of her conversion. |
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Satlow then discusses levirate marriage, polygyny and concubinage. |
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Yet rampant corruption, entrenched patriarchy, and a long history of concubinage also play a role. |
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Supposedly, prostitution, concubinage, bride-selling, slavery and drug addiction were abolished. |
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Yasa permitted the institutions of polygamy and concubinage so characteristic of southerly nomadic peoples. |
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The revolution enabled women to advance by magnitudes over their previous miserable status rooted in the old Confucian order in such practices as forced marriage and concubinage. |
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On May Day 1950, the government promulgated a Marriage Law that banned concubinage and arranged marriages while giving women the right of divorce and to own property. |
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A related function was concubinage, unquestionably one of the major uses of female slaves since the beginning of the institution and particularly prevalent in China. |
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Polygamy and concubinage were rare but existed, at least among the upper classes. |
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The authorities classed such women as priests' concubines and there is evidence that a formal contract of concubinage existed between priests and their women. |
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The council prohibited marriage, concubinage, and drunkenness to all those in holy orders, condemned sodomy and simony, and regulated clerical dress. |
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He traveled to the major cities of Europe to deal with the church's moral problems firsthand, notably simony and clerical marriage and concubinage. |
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