“In this situation, cohabitation in the same residence is often temporary and can involve complete strangers.”

“The survey also found that many single old people choose cohabitation instead of marriage.”

“He was compelled to endure an uncomfortable cohabitation with his political foes.”

“This roomie makes her four-legged cohabiter feel right at home by being a best roommate-and friend-to her pet.”

“Civil partners will now have many more significant rights and tax exemptions than a cohabitee.”

“A pension lump sum is payable to the estate, and therefore can be paid to a cohabitee named in the deceased's will.”

“Come to that, unless he or she is an invalid, why should a cohabitee without children give up work to rely financially on a partner anyway?”

“The borderline between a lodger and a cohabitant is by no means clear-cut in all cases nor readily established by any outside agency.”

“The possibility of testamentary dispositions in favour of a cohabitant may, however, be restricted.”

“To this kindly dog custodian it implied that Ava's spectral cohabitant was not only poor but dissolute or deranged.”

“If the couple are mere cohabitants, the MWPA 1964 is inapplicable and on the face of it the common law rules will apply.”

“As social attitudes have become more tolerant, the legal approach towards cohabitants has also softened.”

“We advise actual cohabitants to draw up a will, a cohabitation agreement or tontine.”

“There is still in England no legal recognition for a common-law relationship with partners or cohabitees, though in some areas such as pensions there have been concessions.”

“There is currently no recognised legal state for cohabitees.”

“As cohabitees, they have no entitlements to each other's assets.”

“In Sweden, for instance, 70 percent of cohabiters wed after their first child is born.”

“Despite the meticulous period setting, the production is not about 1956 but about Jimmy Porter and his similarly intriguing cohabiters.”

“Legal sources expect a challenge to this treatment under European law on the grounds of discriminating unfairly against cohabiters.”