Precontract
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Precontract
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A precontract is a legal contract that precedes another; in particular it can refer to an existing promise of marriage with another. Such a precontract would legally nullify any later marriages into which either party entered. The practice was common in the Middle Ages, and the allegation of a precontract was the most common means of dissolving a marriage by the medieval ecclesiastical courts. Richard III of England claimed his brother Edward IV had entered into a marriage precontract with Lady
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precontract
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2021-12-04T22:36:18Z
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