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Moreover, having once been Cambara's "husband" on paper and having "lived" with her in confined spaces, first as children growing up, then as a couple who entered into a contract of the marriage-of-convenience kind, Zaak has his partisan views.
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"If courts create their own arbitrary definition of marriage as a mere legal contract and cut marriage off from its cultural, religious and natural roots, then the meaning of marriage is lost, and the institution is weakened, " he said.
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The nikah mut'ah consists of a verbal or written contract in which both parties agree the length of time and conditions for the marriage.
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In such a setting the rule that marriage was necessarily a contract terminated only by the death of one of the spouses was not only moral but socially necessary.
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Marriage is a contract, they said, and the legislature sets the terms of that contract.
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