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In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, either following their marriage to each other or after a prolonged sexual attraction.
The common law definition of marriage is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. The law defers to marriage like no other contract. Marriage, in its origins, is a contract of natural law.