Bill No. 19 Marriage And Divorce Bill 2009 “Bahai marriage” means a man and a woman becoming spiritually and physically united, so that they may have eternal unity throughout all the divine worlds and improve the spiritual life of each other; “celebrant” means a person authorized to celebrate marriages by a church, religious body or denomination under this Act; “Christian marriage” means a marriage of one Christian man and one Christian woman for life to the exclusion of others, solemnized in a licensed place of marriage for that purpose by a recognized celebrant; or solemnized by a recognized celebrant in a place directed by the Minister’s licence; “cohabitation” means a man and a woman living together as husband and wife; “conjugal rights” means the right which a husband and a wife have to each other’s society, comfort and affection; “consortium” means the fact of a husband and wife living together, and includes the mutual rights to sex, companionship, care, services and all rights and obligations commensurate with the marriage status; “co-ownership of property” means the concurrent ownership, possession and enjoyment of property by a person with his or her spouse; “court” means a court of competent jurisdiction; “currency point” has the value prescribed in the First Schedule; “custom” means a rule which, having been continuously observed for a long time, has attained the force of law among a community or group, being a rule that is certain and not unreasonable or opposed to public policy and, in case of a rule applicable only to a family, has not been discontinued by the family; 10