Abercromby, John: on marriage with capture, i, 177 n. 1.
Abipones, i, 105;
abhor close intermarriage, 126 n. 1;
monogamy the rule, i, 143 n. 1;
cohabitation with wives in turn, 145;
liberty of choice, 212, 213;
divorce, 232.
Abduction: pretended, i, 182-84;
whether leading to free marriage among ancient Germans, 276 n. 2.
Adams, Charles Francis: on bundling, ii. 182 and n. 3, 184 and n. 4;
confessions of pre-nuptial incontinence, 195-98;
confessions in Groton church, 198 n. 2.
Adams, Henry: on status of early German woman, i, 257, 260, note;
wedding ring, 279, 280.
Administration of marriage law: effective in early New England, ii, 126, 127, 143-51.
Admonition to the Parliament: quoted, i, 410;
Answer to, 411.
Adoption: as means of social expansion, i, 13 and n. 3, 26 n. 2.
Adultery: according to scriptural teaching, ii, 19, 20;
Jewish law, 20 n. 3, 99 n. 2;
views of early Fathers, 24, 27;
law of Theodosius II., 32;
male, not recognized by early Roman law, 32 n. 3;
nor by early Teutonic, 35 and n. 5;
death penalty for, under Constantine, 32 n. 4;
laws of Valentinian and Justinian, 32 n. 4;
death penalty for, under early Teutonic law, 36, 37, 38;
ground for separation under canon law, ii, 53;
for divorce at Reformation, 62 and n. 2;
death penalty favored by some reformers, 66, 67;
punished by the Reformatio legum, 79;
Samuel Johnson on, 106;
under present English law, 110, 114, 115.
—— in the American colonies: death penalty for, ii, 169;
this penalty enforced in Massachusetts, 169-71;
punished by scarlet letter in Plymouth, 171, 172;
also in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, 172-76;
espoused woman may commit, 180, 181;
punishment for, in Virginia, ii, 236;
New Netherland, 280;
Pennsylvania, 319, 320 n. 6, 385, 386;
early Massachusetts, male, not ground of divorce, 331, 345 and n. 1: same in Plymouth, 351;
death penalty in New Haven, 352;
how punished in Massachusetts, ii, 398 n 3.
Æthelberht, code of: allows one-sided divorce, ii, 39.
Affinity: forbidden degrees of, i, 129, 352 n. 1, 354 n. 5, 390, 391.
Afghanistan: wife-capture in, i. 160;
wife-purchase, 197;
sentiment of love, 248.
African aborigines: matrimonial institutions of, i, 33, 34, 107 n. 1;
Starcke on, 46;
marriage customs in Guinea, 83 n. 4;
polyandry of Kafirs, 135 n. 2;
rich indulge in polygyny, 146 n. 1;
wife-capture rare, 159;
symbol of rape, 172;
coexistence of rape and purchase, 180;
wife-purchase, 193, 194;
free marriage, 214;
divorce at pleasure, 226 and n. 3, 239;
divorce in council, 241.
Agde, Council of: allows remarriage after divorce, ii, 39;
did not originate spiritual divorce jurisdiction, 49 and nn. 2, 3.
Age of consent to carnal knowledge: in the various states and territories, iii, 195-203.
Age of consent to marriage: under canon law, i, 357-59;
Swinburne on, 403 n. 1;
in New York province, ii, 287;
in the New England states, 395, 396;
southern and southwestern states, 428, 429;
middle and western states, 471, 472;
reform needed, iii, 190, 191.
Age of parental consent to marriage: in the New England States, ii, 396, 397;
southern and southwestern states, 429-33;
middle and western states, 472, 473;
reform needed, iii, 191.
Agnation: the Roman, i, 11, 12;
extent of, according to Maine, 12;
whether among Hebrews, 15-17;
only element of, among early Aryans, 27, 28;
relation of, to patria potestas, 30-32.
Ainos: wooing-gifts among, i, 218.
Alabama: marriage celebration in, ii. 417 n. 4;
age of consent and of parental consent, 428, 429;
license bond required when under age, 430;
forbidden decrees, 433, 435;
void or voidable marriages, 437, 438;
miscegenation forbidden, 438;
license system, 447;
license bond, 448;
return, 449;
legislative divorce, iii, 39, 40;
judicial divorce, 62-64;
remarriage, 83: residence, 85;
process, 89;
common-law marriage, 176;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 200.
Alamanni: wife-purchase among, i, 264 and n. 3.
Alaska: marriage celebration in, ii, 463;
witnesses, 465;
definition, 470;
age or consent to marriage, 471;
forbidden degrees, 474;
marriage certificate, 492;
divorce, iii, 143, 144
remarriage, 149;
residence, 157;
courts silent as to common-law marriage, 182;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 202.
Albania: bride-price in, i, 197.
Alcibiades: prevents Hipparete from getting divorce, ii, 12 n. 3.
Aleuts: man's sole right of divorce among, i, 231.
Alexander III.: decretal epistle of, to the bishop of Norwich, i, 315, 351.
Alfonso the Wise: defines three kinds of secret marriage, i, 347, 348.
Alfurese of Minahassa: divorce among, i, 226.
Algonquins: abhor close intermarriage, i, 126.
Alimony: separate, granted in southern colonies, ii, 368-71;
temporary and permanent, in the New England states, iii, 28-30;
southern and southwestern states, 90-95.
Altfamilie: of Lippert and Hellwald, i, 60.
Amaxosa: divorce among, i, 227.
Amazonism: i, 41, 42, 44.
Ambrose: on divorce, ii, 24;
veil and benediction, i, 294.
American aborigines: position of woman, i, 45 and n. 6;
temporary marriages and prostitution, 49 and n. 1: Punaluan family among, 68;
Ganowánian system of consanguinity, 68, 69 n. 1;
totemism, 74;
house-communities, 129;
monogamy the rule, i, 142, 143 and n. 1;
polygyny, when, 145;
authorities on matrimonial institutions of, 154-56;
wife-capture, 158, 159;
symbolical capture, 164-68;
marriage by service, 186-88;
by a price paid, 190-93;
extent of free marriage, 212, 213;
wooing-gifts, 219;
divorce, 227, 228 and n. 2, 231, 232, 238, 239.
American ethnologists: important work of, i, 154.
Amira, Karl v.: his Erbenfolge cited, i, 263 n. 4.
Amram, D. W.: on Jewish woman's power of divorce, i, 240 n. 4;
schools of Hillel and Shammai, ii, 13 n. 2;
early Hebrew divorce, 13 n. 4, 14;
cited, ii, 152 n. 2.
Anaitis, 51 n. 1.
Anbury, Lieutenant: on bundling, ii, 184.
Ancestor-worship, i, 13 and n. 4, 26 n. 1.
Anchieta, J. de: quoted, i, 106 and n. 2.
Andaman Islanders, i, 107.
Andros, Sir Edmund: wishes to abolish civil marriage, ii, 136;
requires license bonds, 136 and n. 2.
Anesty, Richard de, i, 351.
Angers, Council of: enforces doctrine of indissolubility, ii, 39.
Anglican Clergy: have monopoly of legal marriage celebration in colonial Virginia, ii, 228, 230, 231, 232;
their power in Maryland, 241-45;
North Carolina, 251-59;
Georgia, 262.
Anglo-Saxons: marriage among, authorities on, i, 257, 258;
wife-purchase, 261 n. 2, 262, 263;
arrha, or second stage in evolution of the purchase-contract, 267,268;
formal contract or third stage, 269-71;
gifta, 272-76;
rise of self-betrothal, 276-78.
(See Marriage.)
Animals, the lower: the family among, i, 91-102.
Annam: marriage with sisters in, i, 125.
Annulment of marriage: facility of, under canon law, ii, 56-59.
Anselm: tries to check clandestine marriages, i, 313.
Aphrodite, i, 51.
Aphrodistic hetairism, i, 40-43.
Apollonistic father-right, i, 40, 43.
Appiacás, i, 143 n. 1.
Applegarth, A. C.: quoted, ii, 316, 317, 324 n. 1;
on Quaker wedding feasts, 325, 326.
Appointed daughter, i, 84 n. 2, 217 n. 2.
Arabs: whether patria potestas among, i, 19;
matrimonial institutions of, 34;
wife-lending, 49;
wife-capture, 161, 165;
wife-purchase, 195, 196;
divorce, 226, 227 and n. 1;
effect of wife-purchase on divorce, 246 and n. 1.
(See Islam, Mohammedans.)
Araki, T.: denies wife-capture and wife-purchase among Japanese, i, 172 n. 3.
Arbitration of divorce suits in New Netherland, ii, 372-82.
Aristotle: on family as social unit, i, 10 nn. 2, 3;
bride-price in ancient Greece, 199.
Arizona: marriage celebration in, ii, 417 n. 4;
what constitutes a legal marriage, 424, 425;
age of consent and of parental consent, 428, 429;
forbidden degrees, 433;
void or voidable marriages, 435 n. 3, 437, 438;
miscegenation forbidden, 440;
license system, 447;
return, 449;
judicial divorce, iii, 72-74;
remarriage, 82;
residence, 87;
courts silent as to common-law marriage, 181;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 198, 199.
Arkansas: marriage celebration in, ii, 417 n. 4;
requisites for a legal marriage, 424;
marriages of freedmen, 426;
marriage a civil contract, 427;
age of consent and of parental consent, 428, 429;
forbidden degrees, 433, 435 n. 3, 437, 438;
miscegenation forbidden, 439;
license system, 447;
marriage certificate, 451;
license bond, 448;
return, 449 and n. 1;
state registration, 452;
judicial divorce, iii, 71, 72;
remarriage, 82;
residence, 87;
process, 89;
alimony, 91;
common-law marriage, 176;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 199.
Arles: marriage ritual of, i, 311 n. 4.
—— council of: on second marriage, ii, 26 and nn. 2, 3.
Arnold, S. G.: on divorce in Rhode Island colony, ii, 363, 364, 365.
Arrha: among Salian Franks, i, 264 and n. 2;
takes place of weotuma, 266;
superseded, 268;
as Weinkauf, 270 n. 1;
in form of ring, 278 and n. 3, 280, 281, 295, 307.
Arsha rite, i, 198, 220.
Arunta: sexual customs of, i, 50 n. 2, 75, 76 and n. 3, 170, note.
Aryans, the early: two stages in rise of juridical conceptions of, i, 24-26;
household among, 26, 27;
housewife, 27 n. 2;
whether paternal or maternal system, 18-27.
(See India, Hindus.)
Aryans and Hindus: works on matrimonial institutions of, i, 3, 4;
family among, 26-28 and n. 1;
wife-capture, 159, 160, 170-75.
(See India.)
Asceticism: influences early Christian conception of marriage, i, 324.
Ashantees: remarriage of the woman after divorce not allowed among, i, 245.
Ashton, J.: on the Fleet, i, 437 n. 3;
Fleet marriages, 440-42, notes;
cheapness of, 444 n. 1;
elopements with heiresses, 447 n. 2;
Keith's marriages, 459 n. 3.
Assistants, court of: has divorce jurisdiction in Massachusetts colony, ii, 331, 336.
Âsura rite, i, 198.
Astell, Mary: her Defense of the Female Sex, iii, 237.
Athenians: divorce among, i, 239, 240; ii, 3, 12;
unfavorable position of woman, 12 n. 3.
Atkinson, J. J.: on jealousy as a bar to sexual unions, i, 132, note.
Augustine, St.: on confusion of scriptural texts on divorce, ii, 22 n. 2;
divorce, 23, 24;
indissolubility of marriage, 26, 27;
practice of remarriage after divorce, 28 and n. 5;
triumph of his teachings in Carolingian empire, 41;
death for adultery, 44.
Augustus: changes law of divorce, ii, 16;
compels repudiation of Livia, 17 n. 4;
his conditions regarding divorce, 29 and n. 2.
Aulus Gellius: cited, ii, 15 n. 4, 16, note, 17.
Australian aborigines: works on matrimonial institutions of, i, 34, 35;
authority of father, 46;
alleged evidences of former promiscuity, 53 and n. 3;
these rejected by Crawley, 54;
class systems, 66, 70, 71-76;
extent of female kinship among, 116;
elopement and symbolical capture, 169 and n. 3;
coexistence of rape and purchase, 181 and n. 3, 182;
wives by exchange, 185, 186.
Avery, John: his offenses, ii, 290, 291.
Avoidance: custom of, i, 187 and n. 2.
Aztecs: divorce among, i, 237, 238 n. 1;
remarriage of the divorced couple forbidden, 247;
divorce infrequent, 248.
Babylonians: alleged sacred prostitution among, 51 and n. 1;
wife-purchase, 199, 200;
high ideal of family life, 221 n. 3.
Bachofen, J. J.: his works, i, 33;
character of his writings, 39 and n. 2;
his Mutterrecht analyzed, 40-43;
his disciples and adversaries, 43;
on expiation for marriage, 50.
Bacon, L.: cited, ii, 130 n. 2, 131 n. 4.
Bancroft, George: on slavery in Massachusetts, ii, 216;
slave baptisms, 221.
Bancroft, H. H.: on symbolical rape among Mosquito, i, 166;
the Oleepa, 167, 168;
California Indians, 172 n. 2;
on the Kenai, 187, 188;
Columbians, 238.
Bangor: marriage ritual of, i, 311 n. 4.
Banjuns: status of divorced woman among, i, 245.
Banns: required by Archbishop Walter and by Innocent III., i, 314;
institution of, 359-61;
under law of 1653, 425, 426;
disliked, 441 and n. 2, 445 and n. 3, 457, 458;
under Hardwicke Act, 458, 462;
present English law, 466-69.
—— in early New England, ii, 131 and n. 4;
in eighteenth century, 142;
in Plymouth, 144;
Massachusetts colony, 145;
New Hampshire province, 147;
Connecticut colony, 147 and n. 5;
dual system in Rhode Island colony, 148-51;
in colonies of Virginia, 229, 230, 233;
and Maryland, 240, 243;
in North Carolina colony, ii, 251, 255;
New Netherland, 268-70, 272, 273, 277;
New York province, 285-87, 294, 297;
New Jersey, 309.
—— survival of the optional system of, in the New England states, ii, 401-3;
in the southern and southwestern states, 441-45;
Delaware and Ohio, 482-84;
defects, iii, 186.
Banyai: bride-price among, i, 194.
Baptism of slaves: the problem of, ii, 220-23.
Barebone's Parliament: enacts the civil-marriage ordinance of 1653, i, 418, 428.
Barrington, Lord: on the Hardwicke Act, i, 452 n. 1.
Basil: favors remarriage after divorce, ii, 28 and n. 2.
Bastardy: cases of, in early Massachusetts, ii, 191 n. 3.
Bataks: divorce among, i, 229.
Bath, Lord: drafts marriage bill, i, 448.
Bavaria: divorce rate of, iii, 212.
Bavarians: wife-purchase among, i, 264 and n. 3.
Beamish v. Beamish, i, 318-20.
Beauty: fades early among barbarians, i, 146 and n. 5;
standards of, 207 n. 5.
Bebel, A.: views of, as to marriage and the family, iii, 234, 235.
Beckwith, Paul: on divorce among the Dakotas, i, 232 and n. 3.
"Bedding" the bride and groom in New England, ii, 140.
Bedouins: symbolical rape among, i, 165, 172;
effects of divorce, 246.
Beeck, Johannis van, and Maria Verleth: case of, ii, 274-77.
Beeckman, W.: his letter to Stuyvesant, ii, 277.
"Beena" marriage, i, 16 and n. 3;
as modified polyandry, 80 n. 3;
Tylor on, 114, 115 n. 1.
Belcher, Sir E.: on Andaman Islanders, ii, 107.
Belgium: divorce rate of, iii, 212.
Belknap, J.: on slavery in New England, ii, 217 n. 1, 224.
Bell v. Bell, iii, 207.
Bellingham, Governor Richard: self-gifta of, ii, 210, 211; iii, 173.
Benedict Levita: enforces doctrine of indissolubility, ii, 44.
Benediction: the primitive Christian, i, 291, 293-95, notes, 296 n. 1, 297 n. 1;
in tenth century, 299, 308;
required by Theodore and Anselm, 313;
by Council of Carthage, 313 n. 2.
Beni Amer: divorced woman among, must wait three months before remarriage, i, 245 n. 5.
Bennecke, H.: on adultery among early Teutons, ii, 36 n. 1;
the penitentials, 44 n. 3.
Bennett, E. H.: cited, iii, 178 n. 3;
favors constitutional amendment, 222 n. 3.
Berbers of Dongola: remarriage of divorced couple among, i, 247 n. 2.
Bernhöft, F.: works of, i, 4;
cited, 8 n. 1;
on danger of inference from written laws, 9 n. 2;
rejects mother-right for Aryans, 20;
criticises Leist and Dargun, 23 and n. 4;
on Roman agnation, 31 n. 5;
denies invariable sequence of mother-right and father-right, 55;
on wife-capture and marriage, 178 n. 1; 182 n. 3; 184 n. 3;
coemptio, 199 n. 5;
wife-capture among Germans, 258 n. 1.
Bertillon, J.: on the marriage rate, iii, 214;
influence of legislation on the divorce rate, 216;
of restrictions on remarriage, 219 n. 1.
Betrothal: the old English and early German, i, 258-72;
forms of, among the Burgundians, 265 n. 2;
evolution of, 266-69;
English ritual of tenth century, 259 n. 1, 269-71;
self-betrothal, 276-81;
repetition of, in the nuptial ceremony, 283-85;
Swabian ritual of the twelfth century, 284, 285;
Roman, 291, 292 and n. 3;
of the canon law based on the German, 293 and n. 1;
no ritual of, under Roman law, 294.
(See Beweddung.)
—— law and theory regarding, among the reformers, i, 371-86.
—— or pre-contract, in New England, ii, 179-81;
survival of the beweddung, 180;
a kind of half-marriage, 180, 181;
influences bundling, 185, 186;
probable cause of pre-nuptial fornication, 186-99;
influenced by Jewish law, 199, 200;
similar effects of published contract in New Netherland, 271.
(See Beweddung.)
Bettbeschreitung, i, 272 n. 4.
Beust, J.: on divorce, ii, 62;
favors death for adultery, 66.
Beweddung: the betrothal or sale-contract, i, 220;
among the old English and other Teutons, 258-72;
phases of evolution of, 266-69;
old English ritual, 269-71, 302;
relative importance of, as compared with the gifta, 273-76;
self-beweddung, 276-86.
(See Betrothal.)
—— regains original importance after German Reformation, i, 373, 374 and n. 5;
also in New England, ii, 180.
Beyer, Caspar: case of, i, 374 n. 5.
Beza, T.: on divorce, ii, 62;
favors death for adultery, 66.
Bibliographical footnotes, the chief: family as basis of state, i, 10 n. 1;
patria potestas, 11 n. 2;
"beena" marriage, 16 n. 3;
ancestor-worship, 13 n. 4, 26 n. 1;
Aryan or Indic family, 28 n. 1;
definitions, 44 n. 1;
Bachofen, 39 n. 2;
original communism, 46 n. 5, 47 nn. 1, 2;
horde, 47 n. 3;
prostitution and licentious customs, 48, 49, notes;
proof-marriages, 49 n. 2;
wife-lending, 50 n. 1;
jus primae noctis, 51 n. 2;
Australian class systems, 76 n. 3;
totemism, 79 n. 2;
polyandry, 80 n. 2;
niyoga, 84 n. 2;
McLennan's views, 86 n. 2;
female infanticide, 86 n. 1;
female kinship, 110 n. 2;
couvade, 112 n. 4;
polygyny, 141 n. 2;
wife-capture, 156 n. 1;
form of capture, 164 n. 2;
wife-purchase, 185 n. 2;
wife-purchase among American aborigines, 193 n. 2;
sexual selection, 205 n. 4;
child-betrothal, 209 n. 1;
choice of woman in courtship, 215 n. 4;
marriage contract among Babylonians and Assyrians, 221 n. 3;
Arabian divorce, 227 n. 1;
Zeitehen, 235 n. 1;
wife-capture among Germans, 258 nn. 1, 2;
weotuma, and equivalent terms, 259 n. 3;
tutelage of women among Germans, 259 n. 4;
nature of the betrothal, 260 n. 1;
old English marriage, 263 n. 4;
on marriage of Chlodwig and Chlotilde, 264 n. 2;
arrha, 266 n. 1;
morning-gift and dower, 269 n. 2;
nuptials of widows, 273 n. 1;
Sohm's theory, 275 n. 2;
ring and kiss, 278 n. 3, 279 n. 1;
acceptance of Roman marriage forms by early church, 291 n. 2;
consensus in Roman marriage, 292 nn. 2, 3;
sponsalia, 293 n. 1;
marriage at church door, 300 n. 1;
early Fathers on marriage, 325 n. 2;
rise of sacerdotal celibacy, 328 n. 1;
immorality of mediæval clergy, 332 n. 1, 388 n. 4;
Lombard's theory of consensus, 336 n. 6;
clandestine marriage, 346 n. 3;
forbidden degrees, 352 n. 1;
impediments after the Reformation, 391 nn. 1, 2, 3;
nature of marriage according to English Reformers, 394 n. 1;
parish registration during the Commonwealth, 426 n. 3;
Hardwicke Act, 449 nn. 1, 2;
Scotch marriage law, 473 n. 2;
Jewish divorce, ii, 12 n. 4, 13 n. 4;
Roman divorce, 14 n. 3, 15 n. 4;
scriptural law of divorce, 19 n. 2;
views of early Fathers on divorce, 23 n. 1;
penitentials, 44 n. 3;
Protestant opinions on divorce, 62 n. 2;
Wittenberg consistory, 70 n. 4;
Reformatio legum, 77 n. 4;
Foljambe's case, 82 n. 2;
Lyndhurst's Act, 95 n. 5;
deceased wife's sister question, 98 n. 2;
parliamentary divorce, 102 n. 2, 103 n. 3;
present English divorce law, 109 nn. 1, 2;
clerks of the writs, 146 n. 1;
death penalty for adultery, 169 n. 3, 170 n. 1;
marriage and divorce laws of French Revolution, iii, 168 n. 2, 169 n. 1;
age of consent law reform, 196 n. 1;
divorce rate in Europe, 213 n. 1;
divorces in France, 216 n. 4;
disintegration of the family, 225 n. 1;
college women and marriage, 244 n. 2;
effect of woman's new activities, 240 n. 4, 247 n. 2;
woman's rights literature, 237 n. 4, 238 n. 2;
early writings on woman and marriage, 236 n. 2.
Bibliographical headnotes: patriarchal theory, i, 3-7;
horde and mother-right. 33-38;
pairing family, 89, 90;
rise of marriage contract, 152-55;
early history of divorce, 224;
old English wife-purchase, 253-58;
lay marriage contract accepted by the church, 287-91;
the church develops and administers matrimonial law, 321-24;
Protestant conception of marriage, 364-70;
rise of civil marriage, 404-8;
divorce and separation under English and ecclesiastical law, ii, 3-11;
civil marriage in the New England colonies, 121-25;
marriage in the southern colonies, 227, 228;
marriage in the middle colonies, 264-66;
divorce in the colonies, 328, 329;
matrimonial legislation, 388;
divorce legislation, iii, 3;
problems of marriage and the family, 161-67.
Bidembach, F.: on divorce, ii, 68.
Biener, F. A.: his Beiträge cited, i, 290.
Bierling, E. R.: on consensus, i, 292 n. 3;
ecclesiastical marriage, 299 n. 4;
replies to Scheurl, 340 n. 1.
Bigamy: first statute for, ii, 83 n. 2, 84 n. 1.
—— frequent in early New England, ii, 158, 159;
in Massachusetts, 347;
how punished under Duke's law, 286 and n. 1;
under Dongan law, 295.
Bingham, J.: on marriage before a priest, i, 297 n. 1.
Birds: family among, i, 95, 96.
Birth rate: falling, iii, 242, 243.
Bishop, J. P.: on Foljambe's case, ii, 82 n. 2;
on effect of divorce for adultery, 93 n. 3;
quoted, 262 n. 5, 366, 367, 370;
his Marriage, Divorce, and Separation, iii, 27.
Black George of Servia, i, 190 n. 1.
Blackstone. Sir W.: on religious celebration, i, 314 n. 4;
witnesses in civil law courts, ii, 107 n. 2.
Bliss, W. R.: on rum and slavery, ii, 220 nn. 3, 5.
Blood-feud: a restraint on wife-capture, i, 178 and n. 2;
check on divorce, 249.
Boaz, Franz: on the marriage customs of the Kwakiutl, i, 190, 191, 219 n. 3.
Bocca: divorce in, i, 244 n. 2.
Bodio, L.: on the marriage rate, iii, 214.
Boehmer, G. W.: on folk-laws regarding divorce, ii, 36 n. 3;
on jurisdiction in Carolingian era, 50 n. 1.
Boehmer, J. H.: attacks Luther's doctrine of betrothal, i, 373 n. 3.
Bogos: forbidden degrees among, i, 126.
Bohemians: wife-purchase among, i, 159 n. 8.
Bona gratia divorce, ii, 31, 33.
Bonaks: divorce among, i, 239.
Bond, J.: on the Hardwicke Act, i, 449, 450, 451 n. 2.
Bond: required of ministers to celebrate marriages, in Virginia, ii, 412, 413;
West Virginia, 413;
formerly in Louisiana, 420;
Kentucky, iii, 188.
Bonwick, James: on divorce among Tasmanians, i, 232 and n. 5.
Bosnia: effects of divorce in, i, 242.
Bosom-right, i, 187 n. 1.
Botsford, G. W.: his Athenian Constitution, i, 7;
on the rita conception, 25 n. 3;
on agnation, 29 n. 4.
Boyd, Rev. John, ii, 248.
Bozman, J. L.: quoted, ii, 239.
Bracton: on divorce and dower, ii, 93.
Bradford, Governor William: on origin of civil marriage in Plymouth, ii, 128, 129.
Bradford, John: on nature of marriage, i, 398.
Braintree, Mass.: church confessions in, ii, 197, 198.
Braknas, the Moorish: effects of divorce among, i, 244 n. 2.
Brand, J.: on Danish hand-fasting, i, 276 n. 3.
Branner, J. C.: translations by, acknowledged, i, 105 nn. 1, 4.
Brautjagd, i, 175 and n. 1.
Brautlauf, i, 175 and n. 1.
Brazilian aborigines: marriage by service among, i, 186 and n. 6;
free divorce, 228 n. 2.
Breach of promise suits: in early New England, ii, 200-203;
in New Netherland, 281, 282.
Brehm, A. C.: on the social life of birds, i, 95, 96 and n. 3.
Brenz, J.: on divorce, ii, 62;
favors death for adultery, 66;
inclines to concubinage rather than allow full divorce, 71.
Brereton, Sir William: on marriage in the Netherlands, i, 409 and n. 3.
Brett, Rev. D., ii, 248.
Brevard: quoted, ii, 261, 263, note;
on the marriage celebration in South Carolina, 416.
Bridal veil, i, 295 and n. 3.
Bride-mass, i, 291, 296, 297, 299, 309.
Bride-price, i, 189-201, 210-23.
Bride-stealing: sham, in New England, ii, 140, 141.
(See Wife-capture.)
Bride-wooer, i, 197 and n. 6, 198.
Brissonius, B.: on the marriage ring, i, 279 n. 1.
Brittanie, James, and Mary Latham: executed for adultery, ii, 170 and n. 3.
Brougham, H.: his marriage law for Scotland, i, 473 n. 2.
Browne, G. F.: on remarriage of divorced persons, ii, 112 n. 2.
Browne, W. H.: quoted, ii, 242 n. 1.
Brun, S. J.: cited, iii, 169 n. 1, 216 n. 4.
Brunner, H.: on wife-purchase, i, 260 n. 1.
Bryce, James: quoted, iii, 204 n. 1, 213;
criticised, 221;
social morality in America, 252.
Bucer, Martin: Cartwright's criticism of, i, 411;
Milton on, 411 n. 2;
vicious effects of canonical doctrine of divorce, ii, 60 n. 3;
liberal views on divorce, 65;
casuistry in favoring divorce for desertion, 74 n. 3;
doctrines stated, 75, 86.
Buckstaff, F. G.: on status of early German woman, i, 260 n. 1;
wife-purchase, 263 n. 4.
Bugenhagen, J.: writes earliest Protestant marriage ritual, 375 n. 2;
on divorce, ii, 62;
favors death for adultery, 66.
Buginese: divorce among, i, 226, 241 n. 6.
Bulgaria: effects of divorce in, i, 242.
Bullinger, H.: quoted, i, 349;
cited, 375 n. 3, 398, 399;
liberal views on divorce, ii, 64;
his Christen State, 72, 73.
Bundling: in New York, ii, 181;
Holland, 182;
New England, 182-85;
influenced by pre-contract, 185,186;
New Netherland, 271, 272, 279;
Pennsylvania, 272.
Bunny, E.: on divorce, ii, 81 and n. 3.
Bunting v. Lepingwell, i, 376 n. 2.
Burgundians: wife-purchase among, i, 265.
Burma: proof-marriages in, i, 49;
marriage with sister allowed, 125;
freedom of widows, 209 n. 6;
free marriage, 215;
free divorce, 226.
Burn, J. S.: on the kiss at the nuptials, i, 279, note;
parish registers, 361, 362 and note;
parish records during the Commonwealth, i, 426;
Peter Symson's hand-bill, 438 n. 2;
Fleet registers, 445, 446;
on marriages at Savoy, 460, note;
Charles James Fox and the Hardwicke Act, 463 n. 2.
Burnaby, A.: on tarrying, ii, 183 n. 5.
Burnet, Bishop G.: on Henry VIII.'s divorce and the Northampton case, ii, 23 n. 1.
Burras, Ann: marries John Laydon, ii, 235, 236.
Bushmans: marriage by service among, i, 189;
whether free marriage among, 214.
Cahyapós, i, 107.
Caird, Mona: on effect of patriarchal rule on woman's constitution, iii, 241;