•concubinage · common-law marriage; a relationship that is not officially registered by the government, from which the partners can nevertheless derive certain legal rights
common-law marriage, civil union, domestic partnership (a legal relationship between a cohabiting couple which grants some or several, depending on the jurisdiction, of the rights of marriage)
çekim: çoğul vətəndaş nikahları · tamlayan vətəndaş nikahının
köken: Calque of Russian гражда́нский бра́к (graždánskij brák), literally "civil marriage". Note that the definition below does not include the English sense civil marriage.
A cohabitation, a voluntary arrangement in which two persons (of different or same sex) live together in a marriage-like relationship without being legally married.