Putative marriage
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A marriage contracted in good faith and in ignorance (on one or both sides) that impediments exist which render it uniawful.
See Mackeld.
Rom. Law, § 556. See In re Hall, 61 App. Div. 266, 70 N. Y. Supp. 410, Smith v. Stnitli, 1 Tex. 628, 46 Am. Dee, 12L