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  2. Consummation - Wikipedia

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    The relevance of consummation in a civil marriage varies by jurisdiction. For example, under section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, a refusal or inability to consummate a marriage is a ground of annulment in England and Wales, [3] but this only applies to heterosexual marriage because Paragraph 4 of schedule 4 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 specifically excludes non ...

  3. Bedding ceremony - Wikipedia

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    A satirical cartoon by Isaac Cruikshank of Princess Charlotte and Prince Frederick being led to bed by a party including her parents, King George III and Queen Charlotte. The bedding ceremony refers to the wedding custom of putting the newlywed couple together in the marital bed in front of numerous witnesses, usually family, friends, and neighbors, thereby completing the marriage.

  4. Consumation - Wikipedia

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    Consummation (disambiguation) (for which the single-m version is an easy misspelling) The Consumation , Hurt's 2003 album "Consumation", a song by Nina Simone, from the album Silk & Soul

  5. Consummation (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Consummation is the first act of sexual intercourse between two individuals, either following their marriage or a prolonged sexual attraction. Consummation can also refer to: Consummation (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra album) , 1970

  6. Escrow - Wikipedia

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    An escrow is a contractual arrangement in which a third party (the stakeholder or escrow agent) receives and disburses money or property for the primary transacting parties, with the disbursement dependent on conditions agreed to by the transacting parties.

  7. Sexual tension - Wikipedia

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    Sexual tension is a social phenomenon that occurs when two individuals interact and one or both feel sexual attraction, but the consummation is postponed or never happens.. A common scenario is where the two individuals function in proximity, such as co-workers or in a group of friends, but do not have sex to avoid awkwardness or for other reasons. [1]

  8. Consumption - Wikipedia

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    Consumption may refer to: . Resource consumption; Tuberculosis, an infectious disease, historically known as consumption; Consumer (food chain), receipt of energy by consuming other organisms

  9. Walima - Wikipedia

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    After the marriage contract and before the consummation of marriage, At the time of the wedding procession (bride leaving for her husband’s house). [Ibn Hajar, Fath al-Bari, 9/287] However, the majority of the scholars (jumhur) are of the opinion that walima is a meal that is prepared after the marriage has been consummated. This was the ...