MARRIAGE (Maritagium), in law, signifies not only the lawful joining of man and wife, but also the right of bestowing a ward or a widow in marriage, as well as the land given in marriage.
Dissolution of MARRIAGE. See DIVORCE.
Forcible MARRIAGE. See FORCIBLE Marriage.
Frank MARRIAGE. See FRANK.
Facilitation of MARRIAGE, in law, is one of the first and principal matrimonial causes, when one of the parties boasts or gives out, that he or she is married to the other, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue. On this ground the party injured may libel the other in the spiritual court; and unless the defendant undertakes and makes out a proof of the actual marriage, he or she is enjoined perpetual silence on that head; which is the only remedy the ecclesiastical courts can give for this injury.