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The traditional wedding cord, also known as the "wedding lasso", is a piece of paraphernalia used in some Catholic wedding ceremonies. It is actually a representation of a loop of rosary beads made out of white satin or silk .
A civil marriage is a marriage performed, recorded, and recognized by a government official. [1] Such a marriage may be performed by a religious body and recognized by the state, or it may be entirely secular .
The “marriage dozen” is an old custom sacredly preserved and still in force in many parts of central France. In Berry and in Anjou, when a young girl marries, her family, or that of the husband, must give her a purse, in which they place, according to their means, twelve pieces, or twelve dozen pieces, or twelve hundred pieces of gold.
Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents.The resulting repository or database has different names in different countries and even in different subnational jurisdictions.
The civil law tradition was developed by, and as such the "authorities" were and continue to be, legal scholars and not judges and lawyers as in the common law tradition. [8] [9] The legal treatises produced by these scholars are called doctrine (doctrina), and are used much in the same way case law is used in the common law tradition. [8]
Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega (1558–1615), Spanish epic poet, playwright and historian; Francisco Laso de la Vega (1568–1640), Spanish soldier and governor of Chile 1629–1639; Luis Laso de la Vega (c. 1622–?), Mexican author, priest and lawyer; Melchor Portocarrero, 3rd Count of Monclova (1636–1705), viceroy of New Spain 1686–1688
A lasso or lazo (/ ˈ l æ s oʊ / or / l æ ˈ s uː /), also called reata or la reata in Mexico, [1] [2] and in the United States riata or lariat [3] (from Mexican Spanish lasso for roping cattle), [4] is a loop of rope designed as a restraint to be thrown around a target and tightened when pulled.
In addition to these factors, state and county officials across the U.S. began to threaten Mexican and Mexican American families who were seeking government aid with deportation. [275] At the same time, the Mexican government introduced a program to entice ethnic Mexicans back to the country with the promise of free land if they returned. [ 233 ]