Assertion: betrothal's marriage | /r/CapableOf | take effect
Facets:
value: before god
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The passage quoted is particularly important, because it indicates—and canon law texts corroborate—that a clandestine marriage was formalized later by a public ecclesiastical ceremony, for as a gloss to the Decretales of Gregory IX explains, "the first marriage has taken effect before God but not before the church.