marriage and the state, 251 n. 2.

California: marriage celebration in, ii, 464, 465;
witnesses, 466;
contract marriage, 467, 468;
requisites for a legal marriage, 469;
definition, 471;
age of consent and of parental consent to marriage, 472, 473;
forbidden degrees, 473-75;
void and voidable marriages, 475-78;
miscegenation forbidden, 478;
license, 487, 488;
return, 489 and n. 8, 490, 491;
marriage certificate and celebrant's record, 492;
state registration, 495;
divorce, iii, 136-39;
remarriage, 149-51;
estate of Wood, 151;
residence, 156;
notice, 158;
soliciting divorce business forbidden, 160;
rejects common-law marriage, 181;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 202.

California Indians: marriage customs of, i, 192 and n. 1;
courtship among, 213 n. 5;
divorce, 239.

Calvin, John: on divorce, ii, 62.

Campbell, Douglas: on influence of Holland on English and American institutions, ii, 130 n. 1.

Campbell, James: abducts Mrs. Wharton, i, 442 n. 2.

Canada: divorce rate of, iii, 211, note.

Canon law: origin of betrothal forms under, i, 293 and n. 1;
validity of unblessed marriages, 297;
antagonism between legality and validity of marriages, 312, 314, 315;
validity of clandestine contracts de praesenti sustained by, 314-16;
divorce under, ii, 47-60.

Canonical theory: rise of, i, 324;
literature of, 321;
evil effects, 340-50.
(See Jurisdiction, Legality and validity.)

Carlier, A.: error of, regarding marriage in early New England, ii, 128 n. 1;
influence of Mosaic code on the Puritans, 152 n. 1.

Capitulary of 802, i, 298 and n. 2.

Capitularies: regarding divorce, ii, 41-44.

Caribs: women of, have separate language, i, 158 and n. 5;
free marriage, 212;
divorce rare, 247 n. 6.

Carpenter, E.: quoted, iii, 230.

Carthage, Council of: requires benediction, i, 313 n. 2;
on divorce, ii, 27 and n. 4, 38.

Cartwright, Thomas: his controversy with Whitgift, 410-14;
on ecclesiastical matrimonial jurisdiction, 412-14;
the English marriage ritual, i, 301 n. 3.

Castañeda: on sacred prostitution, i, 52 n. 1.

Cato: lends wife Marcia to Hortensius, i, 50 n. 1; ii, 17 n. 4.

Catts, Cornelius van: will of, ii, 282, 283.

Catullus: his nuptial hymn quoted, i, 171.

Cauderlier, G.: on the marriage rate, iii, 214.

Celebration of marriage. (See Solemnization.)

Celibacy of clergy: literature of, i, 321, 322;
more holy than wedlock, 325;
bright side of, 330-32:
rejected by Luther, 389;
slow abandonment of, in England, 394-98.

Celts: whether patria potestas among, i, 29, 30;
symbol of rape, 172,173.

Certificate and record of marriages: in New England, ii, 401-8;
southern and southwestern states, 441-52;
middle and western states, 481-97;
defects of the license system, iii, 190-94.

Ceylon: marriage with a sister allowed in, i, 125;
polyandry in, 140;
Veddahs of, 142 and n. 2.

Cicero: on divorce, ii, 16;
repudiates Terentia, 17 n. 4.

Chambioás: wives among, burned for adultery, i, 109.

Circumcision, i, 206 n. 2.

Chalmers, George: quoted, ii, 250 n. 1.

Charruas, the African: free divorce among, i, 226 n. 3.

Chemnitz, Martin: on divorce, ii, 62 and n. 3.

Child-betrothals: in Australia, i, 181;
elsewhere, 208, 209 n. 1;
in the age of Elizabeth, 399-403.

Child-marriages: in the age of Elizabeth, i, 399-403.

Chinese: relationship among, i, 68;
secondary wives among, 144;
authorities on matrimonial institutions of, 153, 154, 224;
symbol of capture, 172 and n. 3;
wife-purchase, 195 and n. 3;
divorce, 231, 235-37, notes, 242 n. 1, 248.

Chippewayans, i, 146, 213.

Chlodwig and Chlotilde: marriage of, i, 264 and n. 2.

Chosen guardian in the nuptial ceremony, i, 381;
superseded by the priest, 308.

Chrysostom: cited, i, 294;
on divorce, ii, 27 and n. 3.

Church confession of ante-nuptial incontinence: in Massachusetts, ii, 190, 191 and n. 2, 195-99.

Church ordinances: on divorce, ii, 67, 68.

Church accepts lay form of marriage, i, 291.

Clan: older than family, according to Morgan, i, 66;
and Starcke, 113, 114.

Clandestine marriages: canon of Council of London on, i, 313 and n. 4;
that of Archbishop Richard, 313,314;
constitution of Archbishop Walter, 314;
those de praesenti valid, 314, 315;
in England and Scotland, 316;
the fruit of the canonical theory, 340-50;
legal in England after Reformation, 376-80;
in St. James, Duke's Place, 436 n. 1;
the Fleet and elsewhere, 437-48;
bills in Parliament on, 446 n. 4.

—— in the New England colonies, ii, 203-12;
Virginia, 235;
New Jersey, 313;
in the United States, iii, 188-92.

Clement of Alexandria: on second marriages, ii, 25 n. 2.

Clerk of the writs: registers marriages in Massachusetts colony, ii, 145, 146.

Clerk or reader of the parish: publishes banns and administers license law in Virginia colony, ii, 232, 234.

Clothes: do not originate in feeling of shame, i, 206 n. 2.

Codex Justinianus: influence of, on Dutch law, ii, 268.

Code Napoléon, iii, 169.

Cochrane alias Kennedy v. Campbell, i, 448.

Coeducation: social value of, iii, 245.

Coemptio, i, 171 n. 3, 199 and n. 5, 220; ii, 14 n. 4;
how dissolved, 15 n. 1.

Coibche: bride-price in Ireland, i, 200.

Coke, Sir Edward: secret marriage of, i, 441 n. 1.

Colden, C.: on divorces granted by the governor in New York, ii, 384, 385.

Colorado: marriage celebration in, ii, 464;
celebrant protected by license, 470;
definition, 470;
age of parental consent to marriage, 472, 473;
forbidden degrees, 473-75;
void and voidable marriages, 475-78;
miscegenation restrained, 478:
license, 487, 488;
return, 489 and n. 3, 490, 491;
divorce, iii, 129, 130;
remarriage, 149;
residence, 156;
notice, 158 n. 3;
intervention of attorney in divorce suits, 159;
common-law marriage, 177;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 201.

Colors: as means of sexual attraction, i, 204, 205.

Columbian Indians: divorce among, i, 238.

Comanches, i, 213.

Common-law marriage: generally good in colonial New England, ii, 151 and n. 3;
Virginia, iii, 171, 172;
Maryland colony, ii, 262 n. 5, iii, 172;
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia colonies, ii, 263, note; iii, 172, 173;
probably good in New York province, ii, 295, 296;
evidence of Lauderdale Peerage case, 300-306.

—— history of, in the various states, iii, 170-85.

Commons, J. R.: quoted, iii, 226, 227.

Commissioners to join persons in marriage: in Plymouth, ii, 133;
Massachusetts, 133 and n. 4; 134 and notes.

Communism, sexual: Bachofen's view of, i, 40, 41;
theory of, accepted by many writers, 46 n. 5;
alleged survivals, 47-52;
views of various writers, 54-65;
Morgan's theory, 66-68;
McLennan's theory, 77, 78;
the problem of, i, 89-110.

Concubinage: tolerated by some leaders of the Reformation, ii, 71.

Confarreatio, i, 171 n. 3; ii, 14 n. 1;
how dissolved, 15 n. 1;
survived for flamines, 15 n. 2.

Confessions of ante-nuptial incontinence: cases of, ii, 186-99.

Confucius: rule of, as to divorce, i, 236.

Conjugal duty: refusal of, ii, 62 and n. 2.

Conjugium initiatum, i, 335.

—— ratum, i, 335.

Compiègne, Synod of: on divorce, ii, 42-44.

Connecticut the colony: obligatory civil marriage in, ii, 135 and n. 4;
rise of ecclesiastical, 138;
contract and covenant, 147;
laws regarding single persons, 152, 153;
regulates courtship, 164;
imposes scarlet letter for adultery, 173;
for incest, 178;
pre-contract or betrothal required, 179;
espoused wife may be punished for adultery, 180;
bundling, 182, 183;
marriage with wife's sister voidable, 214;
early maturity of divorce law, 353, 354;
divorce statutes, 354;
legislative divorce, cases of, 355-60;
question of common-law marriage, iii, 174.

—— the state: celebration of marriages in, ii, 391, 393, 394;
age of parental consent to marriage, 396;
long survival of impediments of affinity, 397;
of scarlet letter, 398;
bars marriages of the epileptic and imbecile, 400;
survival of optional system of banns or posting, 401;
certificate and record, 404;
return, 405;
collection of statistics and record, 407, 408;
divorce: jurisdiction, kinds, and causes, iii, 13, 14;
remarriage, 21, 22;
residence, 24, 25;
notice, 25, 26;
alimony, 30 n. 1;
courts silent as to common-law marriage, 181, 182;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 198;
divorce rate, 209, 212 n. 1.

Consanguine family, i, 67, 68.

Consanguinity: Morgan's classificatory and descriptive systems of, i, 66-68;
forbidden degrees of, 121-32. (See Forbidden degrees.)

Consensus, i, 291, 292, notes.

Consistorial courts: origin of, ii, 70, 71 n. 1.

Constantine: divorce law of, ii, 30, 31.

Contract: rise of the marriage, i, 152-223.

Contract conjugal: described, iii, 168 n. 2.

"Contract marriage," ii, 467, 468.

Cook, F. G.: cited, ii, 252 n. 3;
on Dongan law, 295 n. 2;
Lauderdale Peerage case, 306 n. 2;
law of twenty-four proprietors, 311;
common-law marriage, iii, 171, 183, 184;
cited, 194.

Cooley, T. M.: decision of, in Hutchins v. Kimmel, iii, 177.

Copula carnalis, i, 385, 386, 388.

Corbusier, W. M.: on pairing season among the Apache, i, 99 n. 3.

Council of Trent: authorities on, i, 288, 289, 316 n. 1;
enforces ecclesiastical celebration, 315;
opens way for civil marriage, iii, 168. (See Trent, Council of.)

Courtship: methods of male, i, 202-7;
free. 210-23;
regulated in early New England, ii, 162-66;
by Governor Wyatt of Virginia, 236, 237;
by Pennsylvania Quakers, 323 and n. 5, 324, 325.

Cousins, first: intermarriage of, legalized by Henry VIII., but opposed in New England colonies, ii, 212, 213;
opposed by Pennsylvania Quakers, 322;
laws restricting, in various states, ii, 397, 433, 474.

Couvade, i, 36; said to arise in sexual taboo, 54;
theories of, 112 and n. 4.

Covenant, the marriage: distinguished from the contract in Connecticut, ii, 147.

Coverdale, Miles: translates Bullinger's Christen State, ii, 72. (See Bullinger.)

Cowley, C.: quoted, ii, 280;
divorce cases collected by, 332, 370 n. 3.

Cowyll: bride-price in Wales, i, 200 n. 3.

Coyness: as ground of sham capture, i, 175, 176.

Cranmer, Archbishop: marries, i, 394, 395.

Crawley, Ernest: his Mystic Rose, i, 35;
on sexual taboo among Australians, 54;
class nomenclatures, 76;
the couvade, 112 n. 4;
incest and promiscuity, 131, note;
separate language of women as result of sexual taboo, 158 n. 5;
connubial and formal capture, 177 and n. 1;
tattooing and other mutilations, 206 n. 2.

Creeks, i, 104; liberty of choice among, 213.

Crete: symbol of capture in, i, 171.

Criminal conversation: action for, ii, 114.

Crnagora: divorce in, i, 244 n. 2.

Cromwell's civil marriage ordinance: authorities on, i, 404, 405;
historical significance of, 408;
discussion, 418-35;
cited in debates on Hardwicke Act, 451 n. 2;
and in discussion of the Unitarian bill, 462 and n. 1.

Cromwell, Frances: wedding of, i, 429-31.

Cromwell, Oliver: principles of his marriage law anticipated in New England colonies, ii, 127.

Cromwell, Thomas: on registers, i, 362.

Crowning, i, 295 n. 5.

Cumberland, Duke of: contracts an irregular marriage, i, 449 n. 3.

Cunow, H.: his Australneger, i, 35;
on class systems, 72, 73;
on female kinship, 116;
Westermarck's theory of origin of horror of incest, 131 n. 1;
exogamy, 131 n. 1;
absence of wife-purchase among low races, 124 n. 2.

Curr, E. C.: his Australian Race, i, 35;
on autocracy of father among Australians, 46;
Australian class systems, 70, 71;
wife-capture in Australia, 169 n. 3.

Custis, John and Frances: their marriage agreement, ii, 237-39.

Cyclops, of Homer, i, 10 n. 3.

Cyprian: on second marriage, ii, 25 n. 2.

Cyprus: sacred prostitution in, i, 51 n. 1.


Dahn, Felix: on mund, i, 260, note.

Dakota, the: bride-price among, i, 191.

Dakota Territory: divorce laws, iii, 140-42;
divorce rate, 218 n. 3.

Dalrymple v. Dalrymple, i, 473 n. 2.

Damara: the bride-price among, i, 194;
divorce at pleasure of either spouse, 226.

Dane, Nathan: apologizes for Massachusetts slavery, ii, 217 n. 2.

Dargun, L.: on mother-right among early Aryans, i, 20-22;
distinguishes between power and relationship in maternal system, 22, 23;
his works, 33, 44 n. 1;
rejects theory of woman's political supremacy, 45, 46;
on successive forms of marriage, 58;
rejects Starcke's theory of female kinship, 114 n. 3;
on wife-capture, 157 and n. 2, 160;
classifies peoples having so-called marriage by capture, 164 n. 1;
symbolical rape among Slavs and Germans, 174, 175, 258.

Darwin, Charles: on monogamy and polygyny among lower animals, i, 96 n. 2, 97;
causes of sterility, 130 and n. 2;
numerical disparity of sexes, 137 n. 4;
sexual selection, 203-6;
standards or beauty, 207 n. 5.

Davis, A. M.: cited, ii, 170 n. 1;
on stigma of scarlet letter, 171 nn. 2, 3, 174, note, 178 n. 4.

Dawan, west Timor: divorce in, i, 241, 245 n. 2, 247 n. 2.

Dawson, James: divorce, 232 and n. 3, 239;
divorce in West-Victoria, i, 229, 230.

Deccan: wife-capture in, i, 160.

Deceased wife's sister question, i, 353, 354;
ii, 96-102.

Decree nisi: in Massachusetts, iii, 8, 9;
Maine, 18;
Rhode Island, 22;
New York, 104;
Oklahoma, 83;
California, 151, 152.

Definition of marriage: none in New England states, ii, 395;
in southern and southwestern states, 427, 428;
in middle and western states, 470, 471.

Defoe, Daniel: on an academy for women, iii, 237.

Delaware, the colony: marriage laws of, ii, 320 n. 6.

—— the state: marriage celebration in, ii, 457, 458;
age of consent and of parental consent to marriage, 472, 473;
marriage of indented servants, 473;
forbidden degrees, 473-75;
void and voidable marriages, 475-78;
miscegenation restrained, 478, 479;
marriage of paupers restrained, 479;
optional system of banns or license, 482, 483;
return, 489 and n. 3, 492;
celebrant's record, 492;
state registration, 493;
legislative divorce, iii, 100, 101;
judicial divorce, 111-13;
remarriage, 146;
residence, 153;
courts silent as to common-law marriage, 182;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 201 and n. 10;
divorce rate, 209, 210.

Delbrück, Berthold: rejects theory of maternal family among Indo-Germanic peoples, i, 20;
on Bachofen, 39 n. 2.

Demetrian mother-right, i, 40, 41 n. 1.

Denison, widow: courted by Sewall, ii, 157 n. 2, 205, 206.

Denmark: marriage rate of, iii, 214, 215.

Denton, W.: quoted, i, 359 and n. 2.

Desertion: cause of divorce, at Reformation, ii, 62;
in England, 74;
meaning broadened, 62, 63 nn. 1, 2;
recognized by the Reformatio legum, 78.

D'Evreux, Père Yves: on incest among Brazilian natives, i, 126 n. 1.

Dhama: ordinance of Varuna, i, 24.

Dharma: stage among Aryans, i, 24, 25;
position of purchased wife, 217 n. 2.

Dieckhoff, A. W.: on time of gifta, i, 272 n. 1;
Sohm's view of betrothal, 275 n. 2;
works of, 288, 290;
consensus, 292 n. 3;
benediction, 296 n. 1, 297, 298 and n. 1;
marriage at church door, 299 n. 4;
rise of ecclesiastical marriage, 310 n. 1;
exchange of rings, 375 n. 3.

Dieri: form of marriage among, i, 72 n. 6.

Diffarreatio, ii, 15 n. 1.

Dike, S. W.: his work for the National League, iii, 204;
quoted, 205 n. 3, 207;
on divorce rate, 209, 210, 211, 212, 218 nn. 2, 3;
remarriage after divorce, 219 n. 1;
methods of securing uniform divorce law, 222 n. 3;
his works cited, 225 n. 1;
on alleged loss of capacity for maternity by American women, 242;
emancipation of woman and property, 247 n. 2.

Dilpamali marriage, i, 72 n. 6.

Dionysius: cited, ii, 16, note.

"Directory of Public Worship," 1645: marriage ritual of, i, 417.

Disobedience to parents: death penalty for, in New England colonies, ii, 162.

Dispensations, ii, 55, 56; abuse of, 59 n. 2;
kinds, 60 n. 2.

Dissenters: oppressed by the Hardwicke Act, i, 460-65;
enjoy their own rites in Maryland, ii, 241, 243, 244;
marry contrary to law in colonial Virginia, 232;
not allowed to solemnize marriages in North Carolina, 251, 252-54; Presbyterians gain partial liberty, 1766, 254-57;
their protests, 257, 258;
practical liberty in South Carolina and Georgia, 260-63.

District of Columbia: celebration of marriage in, ii, 415;
marriage of freedmen, 426;
age of consent and of parental consent, 428-30;
forbidden degrees, 433, 435;
void or voidable marriages, 435 n. 3, 436, 437, 438;
survival of optional system of banns, 444;
present license system, 447;
certificate to married pair, 450;
return, 449, 450;
divorce, iii, 78, 79;
remarriage, 80;
residence, 86;
process, 89;
intervention by attorney, 90;
common-law marriage, 176;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 199:
divorce rate, 210.

Divorce: early history of, i, 224-50;
where marriage dissolved at pleasure of either spouse, 225-28;
where marriage indissoluble, 228;
where by mutual consent, 229, 230;
where the man has the right, 231-38;
where the woman also has the right, 238-40;
the form, 240, 241;
legal effects, 241-47;
frequency, 247-50;
checked by wife-purchase and the blood-feud, 249 and n. 1.

—— under English and ecclesiastical law: authorities, ii, 3-11;
Grecian, Hebrew, and Roman elements of the Christian doctrine, 11-19;
scriptural teachings, 19-23;
views of the early Fathers, 23-28;
legislation of the Christian emperors, 28-33;
compromise with German custom, 33-46;
final settlement of doctrine in the canon law, 47-52;
two kinds of so-called divorce distinguished, 52, 53;
grounds of divorce a mensa, 53, 54;
exceptions allowed, 54-56;
use of papal dispensations, 55;
policy of Council of Trent, 59, 60;
Protestant doctrine, 60;
opinions of Luther and the continental Reformers, 60-71;
those of the English Reformers, 71-85;
Milton's views, 85-92;
void and voidable contracts, 92-95;
Lord Lyndhurst's act, 95, 96;
marriage with deceased wife's sister, 96-102;
parliamentary divorce, 102-9;
present English law, 109-17.

—— in the New England colonies: authorities, ii, 328, 329;
effect of Reformation, 330;
separation from bed and board nearly abandoned, 330;
Hutchinson's statement, 330, 331;
Massachusetts, early law, 331, 332;
table of cases for seventeenth century, 333;
select cases discussed, 334-39;
in Massachusetts during second charter, 339-41;
tables of cases, 341-44;
discussion of select cases, 345-48;
in New Hampshire, 348,349;
Plymouth, 349-51;
New Haven, 352, 353;
Connecticut, 353-60.

—— in the southern colonies: English divorce laws in abeyance, ii, 366, 367;
divorce courts not created, 367;
separate alimony by local courts in Virginia, 368-71;
same in Maryland, 371-74;
Carolinas and Georgia, 375, 376.

—— in the middle colonies, ii, 376;
cases in New Netherland, sometimes with arbitration, 376-82;
New York province, 382-85;
New Jersey, 385;
Pennsylvania and Delaware, 385-87.

—— in the New England states: authorities, iii, 3;
jurisdiction, kinds, and causes, 4-18;
remarriage, 18-22;
residence, 22-25;
notice, 25-27;
alimony, property, and custody of children, 28-30.

—— in the southern and southwestern states: legislative divorce, iii, 31-50;
judicial divorce: kinds and causes, 50-79;
remarriage, 79-84;
residence 84-88;
notice, 88, 89;
alimony, property, and custody of children, 90-95.

—— in the middle and western states: legislative divorce, iii, 96-101;
judicial divorce: kinds and causes, 101-44;
remarriage, 145-52;
residence, 152-57;
notice, 158;
miscellaneous provisions, 158-60.
(See Separation from Bed and Board.)

—— administration: character of, in United States, iii, 207, 208.

—— clandestine: evils of, iii, 205, 206.

—— legislation: resulting character of, iii, 203-23.

—— legislative. (See Legislative divorce.)

—— rate: in United States, 209-11;
higher in cities, 211;
in Europe, 212;
falls in hard times, 215;
how influenced by legislation, 216-19.

—— statistics, iii, 209-19.

—— and the problem of the family, iii, 250-53.

—— granted by the governor in New York province, ii, 384, 385.

—— not provided for by Cromwell, i, 420, 421.

Dobrizhoffer, J. V. de: on jealousy among Abipones, i, 105, 126 n. 1;
on cohabitation in turn among, 145;
cited, 155;
liberty of choice, 212, 213.

Domum deductio, i, 171 n. 3.

Dorsey, J. O.: on the Sioux, i, 143 n. 1, 144;
elopement among Omahas, 168;
symbolical rape among Poncas, 169 n. 1;
free marriage among Omahas, 212 n. 4;
avoidance of mother-in-law, 187 n. 2;
effects of divorce, 242 n. 1.

Dos ad ostium ecclesiae, i, 269.
(See Dower.)

Douaire: the Norman, i, 269.

Dower: origin of, i, 219-21, 249;
in England, 269;
at church door, 299, 300 n. 1, 307 n. 4;
full rights of, denied in case of unblessed unions, 314, 315, 355;
of the widow in case of divorce, 357; ii, 93.

Dowries: higgling of, ii, 203.

Doxy, Ralph, and Mary Van Harris: illegal marriage of, ii, 278, 279.

Doyle, J. A.: cited, ii, 250 n. 1.

Drisius (Driesius), Dominie, ii, 291 n. 4, 379.

Dudley, Joseph: authorizes optional civil or ecclesiastical marriage, ii, 135, 139.

Dunstan, canons of: enforce doctrine of indissolubility, ii, 40.

Dunton, John: on Boston old maids, ii, 157, 158, 167.

Duogamy: among American aborigines, i, 143 n. 1.

Durfee, Judge: on legislative divorce in Rhode Island colony, ii, 365.

Düsing, Carl: on causes determining sex of offspring, i, 138, 139.

Duyts, Laurens: sells his wife, ii, 280.


Earle, Alice Morse: on New England wedding customs, ii, 140, 141;
colonial drinks, 141 n. 5;
early and frequent marriages in New England, 157 n. 2;
breach of promise in New Netherland, 282 n. 1;
joint wills in New Netherland, 283 n. 1;
banns and license in New York province, 297, 298;
Quaker marriage customs in Pennsylvania, 323 n. 5, 324, 325, 326;
separations in New Netherland, 378;
Lantsman's case, 379, 380;
other cases, 380, 381.

Ecclesiastical marriage: authorities on, i, 287-90, 321-24;
rise of, 291-363.
(See Marriage, Divorce.)

Economic forces in the evolution of matrimonial institutions, i, 60-63;
according to Hellwald, 93, 94;
influence on rise of system or female kinship, 113, 114 n. 3, 115, 116;
on rise of polygyny, 145;
on condition of woman, 146 n. 1;
effect of share in labor, 211 and n. 4, 213 n. 5;
importance of, in the present problems of marriage and the family, iii, 235, 246-50.

Education: function of, as to marriage and family, iii, 223-59.

Edwards, Jonathan, and the Northampton revival, iii, 197, 198.

Edwards, Richard: divorce of, ii, 357, 358.

Edwin W., and Mary Whitehead: their marriage the first recorded in Maryland, ii, 239.

Egbert, pontifical of, 298.

Egyptians: prostitution of girls among, i, 49 n. 1;
concubines among, 144;
high domestic ideal, 221 n. 3.

Elizabeth, daughter of James I.: public spousals of, i, 381 n. 2.

Elizabeth, Queen: resists marriage of priests, i, 396-98.

Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor: secret marriage of, i, 441 n. 2.

Elopement, i, 169, 170 and note;
or abduction, 182-84;
a means of free choice, 212.

Elvira, Council of: on second marriage, ii, 25, 26.

Emperors, the Christian: their legislation regarding divorce, ii, 28-33.

Endogamy: McLennan's theory, i, 88 and n. 3, 117;
Tylor's view, 121;
Starcke's view, 124, 125;
clan, 131, 132;
coexistence of, with exogamy, 178 and n. 3.

Engels, F.: his theory of the family, iii, 229, 230.

England: law regarding celebration, iii, 190;
the divorce rate, 213.

England and Wales: divorce rate of, iii, 211, note.

Epiphanius: on divorce, ii, 24;
second marriage, 25.

Epileptic and imbecile: marriages of, restrained in Connecticut, ii, 400;
Minnesota and Kansas, 480.

Erasmus, Desiderius: his liberal view on divorce, ii, 64.

Eskimo: wife-lending among, 49, 50 and n. 1;
polyandry, 87;
restricted polygyny among, 143 n. 1;
symbolical capture, 164, 165;