Assertion: couple's marriage | /r/CapableOf | come after the reformation
Facets:
value: to be considered a contract
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: After the Reformation, marriage came to be considered a contract in the newly Protestant regions of Europe, and on that basis, civil authorities gradually asserted their power to decree a "divortium a vinculo matrimonii", or "divorce from all the bonds of marriage".