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  • And Nancy, that ante-nuptial agreement, that prenuptial agreement is rock solid.

    CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2009 2009

  • The attorney, though he was suspicious, though he was frightened, though he was, in truth, very angry with this new brother-in-law, through whose ante-nuptial delinquencies so much sorrow was threatened to the Bolton family, nevertheless kept the secret from all the Cambridge Boltons.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • There was in Emily a complete realisation of that idea of ante-nuptial blessedness, of which Lily had often thought so much.

    The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

  • The Zwiegelaars were married on October 1, 1988, with an ante-nuptial contract that incorporated the accrual system.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Mrs Greenow, as she spoke these words, drew back from the Captain's arms before the first kiss of permitted ante-nuptial love had been exchanged.

    Can You Forgive Her? 1993

  • Up to 1983, all marriages in South Africa, excluding customary unions, were in community of property, unless preceded by an ante-nuptial contract.

    WOMEN IN THE APARTHEID SOCIETY(1) 1985

  • He attempted to tell me that he would not take you out there against my consent; but I know better, and what such ante-nuptial promises are worth.

    The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Various

  • He bowed gayly, and called up that he was going for his six francs 'worth of ante-nuptial absolution.

    Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

  • Though the lady's ante-nuptial reputation was not spotless, yet their conjugal life was happy, and she bore him four sons and a daughter.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • In order to elucidate this measure beyond doubt, the State passed the ordinance of 7 October, 1857, which decreed that ante-nuptial agreements or promises were, from a legal standpoint, null and void.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

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