crvs:Marriage

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The legal union of two persons under the applicable law. Captures the two parties, witnesses, and the type of marriage (civil, religious, customary, common law). Treated as a vital event rather than a standing relationship, since what is being registered is the occurrence that creates legal spousal status.

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Supertypes

VitalEvent

Properties

Property Type Definition
Event date from VitalEvent date
The date on which the vital event (birth, death, marriage, etc.) occurred. Distinct from the registration date, which is when the event was recorded by a registration authority.
Event date estimated from VitalEvent boolean
Whether the event date is an estimate rather than a known exact date. Common for late-registered births or deaths where the precise date is not documented.
Event location from VitalEvent concept:Location
The specific place where the vital event occurred (for example, the hospital of birth or the place of death). Distinct from the registration location, which is where the event was recorded.
Registration date from VitalEvent date
The date on which the vital event was officially registered with the civil registration authority. May be later than the event date, especially for late registrations.
Registration location from VitalEvent concept:Location
The civil registration office where the vital event was registered. Often a municipal or district-level registry distinct from the place of occurrence.
Registration type from VitalEvent string (crvs/registration-type)
The regime under which the registration was processed: current (within the legal window), late, court-ordered, or reconstruction of a lost record. Affects legal weight and downstream uses.
Registrar from VitalEvent concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The civil registration officer who recorded the event. In many jurisdictions this is the officer whose signature appears on the acte.
Informant from VitalEvent concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The person who declares the vital event to the civil registration authority. Typically a parent for births, a relative or medical professional for deaths, or the parties themselves for marriages.
Registration status from VitalEvent string (crvs/registration-status)
The lifecycle state of the registration process for this vital event: whether it is declared, pending validation, registered, rejected, cancelled, or has been corrected or archived.
Identifiers from Event concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Party 1 concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
One of the two parties to a marriage, divorce, or annulment. Ordering between party_1 and party_2 is arbitrary and does not imply a role or precedence.
Party 2 concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The second of the two parties to a marriage, divorce, or annulment. Ordering between party_1 and party_2 is arbitrary and does not imply a role or precedence.
Witnesses concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
People who witnessed the vital event and attested to it at the time of registration. Witness requirements vary by jurisdiction and event type (marriages most commonly require them).
Type of marriage string (crvs/marriage-type)
The legal regime under which the marriage was contracted: civil, religious, customary, or common law. Determines which authority registered or recognized the union and how subsequent terminations are handled.

Evidence

Standard Equivalent Match
OpenCRVS v2 country config (Farajaland) EventDocument (type='marriage', country-configured) broad
In v2 core, a marriage is an EventDocument whose type string is the country-configured marriage event id (Farajaland Event enum defines Event.Marriage='marriage'). All marriage-specific fields live in EventConfig.declaration. No full marriage EventConfig is present in the Farajaland reference clone; the Event enum confirms the convention.

Referenced by this concept

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