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Chapter IV: Rise of the Marriage Contract 152-223

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I. Wife-Capture and the Symbol of Rape 156-179

II. Wife-Purchase and Its Survival in the Marriage
Ceremony 179-201

III. The Antiquity of Self-Betrothal or Free Marriage 201-210

IV. Primitive Free Marriage Surviving with Purchase,
and the Decay of the Purchase-Contract 210-223

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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3Chapter IV: Rise of the Marriage Contract 152-223

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