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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.
Under existing law, marriages can be annulled on the grounds that a couple have never consummated their union. The standard definition of consummation has developed through case law; the accepted precedent goes back to a 1967 hearing.