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defacto
defacto
See also: de facto
English
Noun
defacto (plural defactos)
- Alternative form of de facto
- 1992, University of New South Wales Aboriginal Law Research Unit, Aboriginal Law Bulletin, Issue 31, unidentified page,
- Homicide, assault, rape, and suicide occur as a result of Aboriginal men′s fear of loss of a valued relationship and jealousy over their wives or defactos.
- 2001, Richard T. Schaefer, Sociology: A Brief Introduction:
- Demographers in Denmark call the practice of living together marriage without papers. In Australia, these couples are known as defactos
- 2001, Jude McCulloch, Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia, page 51,
- The police role […] has tended to exclude a whole class of people — wives, defactos, girlfriends and daughters, or past wives, defactos and girlfriends from the protection of the criminal law, too often with tragic consequences.
- 2007, Jo Barnes, 4: Murder Followed by Suicide in Australia, 1973—1992: A research note, Diane Kholos Wysocki, Readings in Social Research Methods, page 36,
- Of the 250 victims in this sample, 50.4 percent were or had been in an intimate relationship with the offender (intimates are defined as present and past spouses, defactos and lovers).
- 1992, University of New South Wales Aboriginal Law Research Unit, Aboriginal Law Bulletin, Issue 31, unidentified page,