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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.
A union of two people not formalized in the customary manner as prescribed by law but created by an agreement to marry followed by Cohabitation. A fundamental question in marriage is whether the union is legally recognized.