Assertion: betrothal's marriage | /r/HasProperty | illicit
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The importance of Gratian's Decretum for understanding the Arnolfini double portrait is that this authoritative textbook of the new canon law firmly established that clandestine marriage was always illicit and at the same time greatly enhanced the priest's blessing as a constituent of legitimate marriage over the secondary role it had had for Nicholas I in the Bulgarian response.
text: Marriages contracted secretly rather than in a public rite, which in northern Europe normally entailed the presence of a priest, were in fact considered illicit.