>>While they never got around to having a ceremony, they were very
>>clearly common law.
>
>Hmm. Now that you mention it, I've never considered whether that's a
>thing in Zetan law. Given that said code of laws was
>influenced so heavily by the early Wedge Defenders, who were mostly
>bohemian college kids, it probably is, so yeah, there's that.

Most likely it was something they never even thought about and if it exists as a legal status it came in with a 'starter bundle' of laws. So the real question is was it something within "unless contradicted, altered or repealed by later WDF legislation, the laws of the Salusian Empire as of September 1st, 1995 shall be considered the laws of the WDF,"?

(Alter jurisdiction and date to taste, it's your universe after all.)