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Under Brehon Law (traditional Irish law) that’s exactly what a marriage was. No fucking about in churches or anything like that, but if you got a bird up the spout you were automatically married. Long time ago now though.

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Except what happened if you were already married and got another bird up a different spout?

Oh that’s right, we called that girl a degenerate whore and shamed her, and called the kid a bastard. Sure kept the honorable people in good graces and shamed the whores. Now it’s all just whores and they are proud of it. Honk honk

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Think he then had to support both “wives”. But women could also divorce men in that scenario afaik, and it was a kind of fault divorce system so would have been punitive on the man in cases of adultery I imagine. However, while there was a kind of standard brehon law at any given time (it wasn’t a static system) its practice would vary between clans, and we don’t know as much as we would like about even the standard versions truth be told.