ENGAGEMENT. PAST AND PRESENT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15837/aijjs.v7i3.676Keywords:
Engagement, Romanian law, pre-marriage, trial marriage, promissory agreement, promise of marriageAbstract
AbstractAn institution of family law that is not currently found in the Family Code, engagement
existed in the Romanian law prior to the current regulations, representing the mutual promise
between two people that they will marry one another.
Regulated under the Article 266 of the new Civil Code, engagement has the same
regulatory framework, this time legal, representing the mutual promise to conclude a
marriage.
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