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Chapter XXXVI: Part I: , "Dutch Manuscripts, 1630-64;" Albany, 1865. Part II, (6)

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Spencer, Baldwin, and Gillen, F. J.: their _Native Tribes_, i, 35;
on evidences of former promiscuity in Australia, 53 and n. 3;
their view rejected by Crawley, 54;
on class systems, 75, 76;
methods of getting wives in Australia, 170, note;
wife-capture, 181, 182.

Spencer, Herbert: his criticism of Maine's patriarchal theory, i,
14, 15;
of McLennan, 35, 86, 87;
on female kinship, 111;
wife-capture and exogamy, 117-20;
origin of forbidden degrees, 122;
secondary wives, 144 n. 5;
polygyny, 146-48;
wife-purchase, 179, 180;
on significance of marriage by service, 188, 189, 212 n. 1;
original status of woman, 210 and n. 4;
it was relatively high among American aborigines, 213 n. 5;
woman's mental capacity, iii, 240.

Spirgatis, E.: on the betrothal, i, 275 n. 2.

Spiritual affinity, i, 353 n. 5.

Spiritual jurisdiction: evils of, i, 351-59;
rise of, after Reformation, 392.
(_See_ Canon law, Jurisdiction.)

_Sponsalia per verba de praesenti vel futuro_, i, 305, 315, 316;
literature of, 322;
classification, 336-38, 340;
Luther quoted on, 341-43;
law decisions, 443, 444;
mentioned, 351 n. 3;
in England, 376-80.

Stara Pazva: effects of divorce in, i, 243 n. 6.

Starcke, C. N.: on paternal system of kinship, i, 18;
Bachofen, 39 n. 2;
status of African women, 46;
juridical fatherhood, 53 n. 2;
nomenclatures, 72;
criticises McLennan, 87, 88;
rejects theory of uniform primitive state, 91;
origin of the family among lower animals, 92;
the sexual instinct, 100, 101, notes;
origin of system of female kinship, 113, 114;
symbols of wife-capture, 119;
origin of exogamy, 123-25;
polygyny, 146 n. 2;
ceremonial capture, 176;
value of female labor in early marriage, 211 n. 4.

Statistics: divorce, iii, 209-19.

Stead, W. T. exposes traffic in young girls, iii, 195, 196.

Stiel, Dr.: enforces his betrothal, i, 373 n. 1.

Stetson, Charlotte Perkins: on socialization of female sex, iii,
247;
sexual selection and economic subjection, 249 n. 1.

Stiles, H. R.: on bundling, ii, 181, 183, notes, 184 nn. 1, 2, 4,
185 and n. 1;
quoted, 282.

Stoddart, Sir John: on divorce, 1550-1602, ii, 79 n. 5.

Stölzel, A.: on self-divorce and origin of process after
Reformation, ii, 69, 70;
origin of consistorial courts, 70 n. 4, 71 n. 1.

Strabo: on sacred prostitution in Armenia, i, 51 n. 1.

Strahan, S. A. K.: cited, iii, 240 n. 4;
on evil effects of early marriages, 243, 244.

Streitwolf _v._ Streitwolf, iii, 207.

Strong, Justice: his opinion in Meister _v._ Moore, iii, 178.

Stuyvesant, Peter: his letter on publication of marriage, ii, 269,
270.

_Subarrare_: in ritual of Greek church, i, 266 n. 1.

Suffolk county, Mass.: cases of pre-nuptial incontinence, with
penalties and confessions, ii, 188, 192, 196.

Sumner, Charles: on slavery in Massachusetts, ii, 216.

Sumatra: abduction and purchase in, i, 183, 215;
wives by exchange, 185;
betrothals, 209 and n. 6;
divorce among Karo-Karo, 229.

Superintendent registrar: celebration by his certificate, i, 470,
471.

Surtees Society: _Publications_ of, cited, i, 284 n. 1, 288, 297
n. 1, 298, 303-8, 311 n. 1.

Sutro Library; seventeenth-century pamphlets in, i, 418 n. 2, 432
n. 1.

Sutton, Dan: his tongue bored with hot iron for bigamy and perjury,
ii, 286 n. 1.

Swabian marriage ritual of twelfth century, i, 253, 284, 285.

Sweden: divorce rate of, iii, 212.

Swendsen, Haagen: case of, i, 447.

Swinburne, Henry: on the marriage ring, i, 297, note;
_Sponsalia_, 341-43;
pre-contracts, 377, 378;
spousals, 378, 379;
evils of secret spousals, 379, 380;
public spousals, 380;
form of betrothal and the ring, 383-85.

Switzerland: divorce rate of, iii, 211, note;
how the rate is affected by the uniform law, 222 n. 2.

Symbiose, i, 101 n. 2.

Symson, Peter, the Fleet parson, i, 438 n. 2.

Sympathy: has widened the sphere of sexual relations, i, 132.

Syndiasmian family, i, 69, 70.

Tables; statistical: of cases of ante-nuptial fornication, with
penalties and confessions, ii, 188-96;
of Massachusetts divorces in seventeenth century, 333;
and in eighteenth century, 341-44.

Taboo, sexual: Crawley's theory of, i, 54, 131, note.

Tacitus: his description of a German betrothal, i, 262 and nn. 1, 2,
285 n. 4;
on second marriages, 273 n. 1, 277.

Tahiti, i, 245 n. 2.

Talmud: on divorce, i, 240 n. 4; ii, 13.

Tamils, i, 69.

Tancred: the decretalist, ii, 51 and n. 3.

Tarrying, ii, 183 and n. 5, 184.

Tartars: wife-capture among, i, 159;
wife-purchase, 194, 195.

Tasmanians, i, 99: wife-capture in, 159;
elopement, 169;
divorce, 232 and n. 5.

Tatooing, i, 206 n. 2.

Tegg, W.: on the marriage ring, i, 279, note.

Tennessee: celebration of marriage in, ii, 415, 416;
essentials for a legal marriage, 424, 425;
marriages of freedmen, 426;
license to persons under sixteen without parental consent
forbidden, 430, 431;
forbidden degrees, 433-35;
void or voidable marriages, 437, 438 n. 3;
miscegenation forbidden, 438;
survival of dual system of banns or license, 443;
present license system, 447;
license bond, 448;
judicial divorce, iii, 58-61;
remarriage, 82;
residence, 86;
process, 88;
guilty wife forfeits dower, 95;
favors common-law marriage, 176;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 199.

Tertullian: on the betrothal kiss, i, 279, note;
parental consent, 292 n. 4;
form of marriage, 294;
heathen forms of espousal, 295;
divorce, ii, 24;
second marriage, 25 and n. 2.

Texas: marriage celebration in, ii, 421-23;
marriages of freedman, 426;
age of consent and of parental consent, 429;
forbidden degrees, 433, 435;
void or voidable marriages, 437, 438;
miscegenation forbidden, 438, 439;
license system, 447;
return, 449;
judicial divorce, iii, 71;
remarriage, 82;
residence, 87;
trial by jury, 90;
common-law marriage, 176, 177;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 199.

Themis, i, 24.

Theocracy of Massachusetts and New Haven: sway of, tends to separate
church and state, ii, 125.

Theodore of Tarsus: his rules for marriage celebration, i, 313;
regulates marriage and divorce, 333, 334.

Theodosian code: on betrothal with the kiss, i, 424 and n. 2.

Theodosius II.: his divorce law, ii, 31, 32.

Thlinkets, i, 143 n. 1, 213 n. 5.

Thompson, Hannah: on New York wedding customs, ii, 299.

Thompson and Geddes: on sexual selection, i, 205 n. 4.

Thornback, ii, 158.

Thorpe, B.: on foster-laen, i, 270 n. 1;
date of the old English betrothal ritual, 271 n. 1.

Thracians: wife-purchase among, i, 199.

Thwaites, R. G.: on the Winnebagoes, i, 235 n. 1.

Thwing, C. F.: on abuse of divorce jurisdiction under canon law,
ii, 57;
Margaret Tudor's divorces and marriages, 58 n. 2.

Tibet: prostitution in, i, 49 n. 1;
polyandry, 81, 83, 140;
inbreeding, 140;
but one husband usually at home, 103 n. 4.

Tillier, L.: cited, i, 37.

Tilly, Widow: marries Sewall, ii, 206, 207.

Timor: betrothals in, i, 209.

Timorlaut, i, 210.

Titsingh: cited, i, 154.

Tocqueville; A. de: on marriage in America, iii, 252.

Todas: proof-marriages among, i, 49 n. 2;
polyandry, 81-83, 140, 141;
marriage with half-sister, 125 n. 5;
numerical disparity of sexes, 137;
inbreeding, 140;
exchange of dowers, 219.

_Toleramus_: the permission to rewed after divorce, ii, 65 n. 6.

Tonga: husband's sole right of divorce in, i, 231.

Totem _gens_, i, 79.

Totemism: Kohler on, i, 73-75;
McLennan on, 79 and n. 2.

Tower: clandestine marriages in, i, 443.

Town magistrate: grants divorces in Rhode Island colony, ii, 361,
364.

Townshend, Charles: on the Hardwicke Act, i, 449, 451 n. 2, 452,
453, 455 n. 3, 456, 457.

Trent, Council of: declares marriage a sacrament, i. 326 n. 2, 329
n. 1, 333;
against secret marriage, 339;
decree of, 346 n. 2;
on publicity, 359, 360;
its decree not accepted in England, 376;
makes no essential change in the canon law of divorce, ii, 59, 60.

_Treugelöbniss_, i, 268.

Trumbull, B.: on divorces in Connecticut, ii, 358 n. 4.

Tryon, Governor: on the North Carolina marriage laws, ii, 256-59.

Tscheng-Ki-Tong: on divorce in China, i, 236 n. 4.

Tscherkese: betrothals among, i, 209.

Tualcha mura custom, i, 181 n. 3.

Tudor, Margaret: her matrimonial adventures, ii, 57, 58, notes.

Tupinambás, i, 105, 106, 144.

Turanian system of consanguinity, i, 68, 69.

Turner, L. M.: on the Innuit, i, 126 n. 1. 143 n. 1;
natives of Ungava District, 165 and n. 2.

Turner, Paul: on Nestor and on the law of Black George, i, 190 n. 1;
denies wife-purchase among the Slavs, 199 n. 8.

Tutelage of women among the Germans, i, 259 and n. 4;
weakened in the evolution of free marriage, 276-86.

Tyburn: clandestine marriages in, i, 443.

Tylor, E. B.: his _On a Method_, i, 6, 8 n. 2;
his _Matriarchal Family_, 37;
on headship of woman in the family, 45;
exogamy and the class-systems, 72 n. 5, 129;
_Couvade_, 112 n. 4;
exogamy, 121 and n. 3.

Tyndale, W.: on marriage of priests, i, 388 n. 4;
nature of matrimony, 393;
his casuistry regarding desertion, ii, 74.

Uaupés: intermarry with persons of other tribes, i, 128.

Uganda: bride-price in, i, 194.

Ulpian: on _consensus_, i, 292 n. 4.

Unfree: marriage of, i, 257, 276 n. 1.
(_See_ Slave marriages.)

Ungava District, i, 105, 165 and n. 2.

Unger, J.: his _Ehe_ characterized, i, 33;
his theory of gynocracy, 44;
on the bridal ring, 280 n. 3.

Uniform social progress: theories of, i, 8, 9.

Unitarian marriage bill, i, 461, 462.

Unyoros: divorce by symbolical act among, i, 241;
remarriage of divorced couple, 247 n. 2.

Urabunna: their form of marriage, i, 72 n. 6.

_Urfamilie_, of Hellwald, i, 58, 59.

Usher _v._ Troop (Throop), ii, 151 n. 3.

_Usus_, marriage by: how dissolved, ii, 15 n. 1;
weakened by _senatus consultum_, 15 n. 2.

Utah: marriage celebration in, ii, 464;
unauthorized solemnization, 468;
age of consent and of parental consent to marriage, 472, 473;
forbidden degrees, 473-75;
void and voidable marriages, 475-78;
miscegenation forbidden, 479;
polygamous marriages regulated, 476, 477;
license, 487, 488;
return, 489 and n. 3, 491;
divorce, iii, 131-33;
remarriage, 148;
residence, 156;
notice, 158;
rejects common-law marriage, 181;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 201;
divorce rate, 218 n. 3.

Vaîgneur _v._ Kirk, ii, 263, note, 416 n. 2;
iii, 77, 176 n. 1.

Valentine: on bundling, ii, 271, 272.

Vanderbosk, L.: solemnizes marriages in Boston, ii, 137 and n. 3.

Vannes, Council of: allows remarriage after divorce, ii, 39.

Van Voorhis _v._ Brintnall, iii, 145.

Veddahs, the Dravidian of Ceylon: monogamy among, i, 142 and n. 2;
no wife-purchase, 218;
no divorce, 228;
love checks divorce, 248.

Veil, the bridal, i, 295 and n. 3.

Vein to the heart, i, 306 and n. 2.

Venus, the Italian, i, 51.

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

Vermont: celebration of marriages in, ii, 393;
unauthorized celebration, 395;
age of parental consent to marriage, 396;
checks marriage of paupers, 400 and n. 7;
survival of optional system of banns or posting, 403 n. 1;
certificate and record, 404;
return, 405, 406;
collection and record of statistics, 408;
jurisdiction, kinds, and causes of divorce, iii, 15, 16;
remarriage, 21;
residence, 23, 24;
notice, 26, 27;
alimony, 29, 30;
rejects common-law marriage, 179;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 198;
divorce rate, 209, 212 n. 1.

Vignoli, Tito: quoted, i, 99, 100.

Virginia, the colony: slave baptism in, ii, 221;
ecclesiastical marriage and lay administration, 228-34;
license, 234;
secret marriages, 235;
first wedding, 235, 236;
fornication, courtship, 236, 237;
marriage agreement, 237-39;
separate alimony, not divorce, granted, 368-71;
question of common-law marriage, iii, 171, 172.

---- the state: solemnization of marriage in, ii, 409-13;
unauthorized celebration, 425;
marriages 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;
miscegenation forbidden, 439;
optional system of banns or license, 442, 443;
license, by whom issued, 446, 447;
return, 449, 450;
state registration, 452;
legislative divorce, iii, 35, 36;
judicial divorce, 50-52;
remarriage, 79, 80;
residence, 84, 85;
process, 89;
alimony, 90, 92, 93;
courts silent as to common-law marriage, 181, 182;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 200.

Void or voidable marriages: in England, ii, 92-102;
New England, 397-401;
southern and southwestern states, 435-41;
middle and western states, 475-79;
reform needed, iii, 194.

Wadium, i, 268.

Waitz, Georg: on _mund_, i, 260 n. 1.

Waitz, Theodor: on adultery among Micronesians, i, 106 and n. 4;
incest among New England Indians, 126 n. 1.

Wake, C. S.: on polyandry, i, 135;
subordinate wives, 144 n. 5;
causes of polygyny, 136 n. 3, 146 n. 6, 148 n. 3;
wife-purchase, 216 n. 2.

Wales: _trevs_ or clan-households in, i, 129;
symbolical capture, 173.

Wallace, A. R.: on sexual selection, i, 204, 205.

Walpole, Horace: quoted, i, 448 n. 3;
on the Hardwicke Act, 449 n. 2, 457.

Walter, Archbishop: his canon against clandestine marriages, i, 314;
enforcement of banns, 360.

Walter, F.: on marriage, i, 265 nn. 1, 2;
nuptial ceremonies, 285 n. 4;
canon-law betrothal, 293 n. 1.

Wanton, William: marriage of, ii, 134 n. 5.

Ward, L. F.: cited, iii, 240 n. 4;
on woman's sexual subjection, 241, 242;
influence of higher ideal of love on marriage, 245 n. 1.

Washington: marriage celebration in, ii, 463, 464;
witnesses, 265;
unauthorized solemnization, 468;
definition, 470;
age of consent and of parental consent to marriage, 471-73;
forbidden degrees, 473-75;
void and voidable marriages, 475-78;
license, 488;
return, 489 and n. 3, 491;
marriage certificate, 492;
legislative divorce, iii, 98, 99;
judicial divorce, 135, 136;
remarriage, 148;
Willey _v._ Willey, 151;
residence, 156;
notice, 158;
intervention of prosecuting attorney, 159;
soliciting divorce business forbidden, 160;
rejects common-law marriage, 181;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 201.

Watch-an-dies, Australian, i, 99.

Waters, R. E.: on parish records during the Commonwealth, i, 426;
marriage of Frances Cromwell, 429-31.

Wazaramo, African: their divorce by symbolical act, i, 240, 241.

Weeden, W. B.: on civil-marriage contract, ii, 132 n. 4;
quoted, 152, 153;
cited, 157 n. 2;
status of slaves in New England colonies, 215.

Weeks, S. B.: quoted, ii, 252, 254, 256 n. 1, 257, 259 n. 2.

Weinhold, Karl: cited, i, 258 n. 2;
on early German nuptials, 272 nn. 2, 4;
marriage of widows, 273 n. 1;
adultery among early Teutons, ii, 36 n. 1.

_Weotuma_, or bride-price, i, 259 and n. 3;
whether price of the _mund_, 260 and n. 1;
other terms for, 262, 263;
as provision for widow, 266, 267;
when paid, 273.

_Wergeld_: its relation to _mund_, i, 265.

West-Cambridge _v._ Lexington, iii, 18 and n. 1.

Westermarck, Edward: his use of "human marriage," i, 7, note;
accents psychological causes, 9 n. 3;
on peoples with descent in male line, 18;
paternal power among Greeks, Germans, and Celts, 28 n. 2;
use of term "matriarchate," 44 n. 1;
evidence of alleged promiscuity, 47, 48;
nomenclatures, 72;
origin of the family among lower animals, 92, 98, 99;
sexual instinct, 101;
defines marriage, 102;
female kinship, 111-13;
"beena" marriage, 115;
incest, forbidden degrees, and exogamy, 125-32;
origin of polyandry, 136-41;
causes determining sex of offspring, 138, 139;
methods of wife-purchase, 185;
marriage by service, 186 n. 3;
primitive liberty of sexual choice, 202;
sexual attraction, 203-7;
standards of beauty, 207 n. 5;
on the Padams, 217, 218;
wooing gifts, 221;
effects of property on divorce, 248;
conservative influence of wife-purchase, 249 n. 1.

West Goths: wife-purchase among, i, 264.

West Victoria: divorce in, i, 229, 230.

West Virginia: solemnization of marriage in, ii, 413;
unauthorized celebration, 425;
marriages 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;
miscegenation forbidden, 439;
favors marriage, 441;
license system, 447;
return, 449, 450;
state registration, 452;
divorce, iii, 52, 53;
remarriage, 82;
residence, 85;
process, 89;
alimony, 93;
rejects common-law marriage, 180;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 200.

_Wette_ or _wed_: the formal contract, i, 268, 271;
derivation, and of kindred terms, 274 n. 4;
in self-betrothal, 278.

Wharton, W.: self-marriage of, ii, 289, 290.

Wheaton, Christopher and Martha: case of, ii, 190, 191.

Whitforde, Richard: on secret contracts, i, 350.

Whitefield, George: and the "great awakening," ii, 197.

Whitgift, Archbishop: defends English marriage ritual, i, 301 n. 3;
his controversy with Cartwright, 410-12;
defends the divorce jurisdiction of the spiritual courts, ii, 81;
presides in the council at Lambeth, 82 and n. 2.

Whitney, H. C.: cited, iii, 208 n. 2.

Whitmore, H. J.: quoted, iii, 146.

Whitmore, W. H.: on divorce in Massachusetts colony, ii, 331 and
n. 4, 332;
on the Freeman case, 338 n. 4.

Widow-men: among the Chambioás, i, 109 and n. 1.

Widow-sacrifice: i, 107 n. 1.

Widows: their nuptials among early Germans, i, 273 n. 1;
first to be emancipated from tutor's control, 277;
hand covered at second nuptials, 305 and n. 3.

Wife-capture, 1, 55, 56-58;
origin according to Morgan, 69;
McLennan's theory, 84, 85, 87 and n. 2, 117;
Spencer on, 117-20, 176 n. 1;
Lubbock on, 120;
and the symbol of rape, 156-79;
existing with wife-purchase, 179-84;
its significance exaggerated, 158, 162, 163, 184;
examples of actual, 158-62;
the symbol of rape, 163-80;
its coexistence with wife-purchase, 180-84;
implies economic progress, 201;
among the Germans, 258.

Wife-lending, i, 49, 50 n. 1, 52;
regulated in Australia, 53 n. 3, 71.

Wife-pawning and mortgaging, i, 194 and n. 3.

Wife-purchase, i, 55, 56-58;
its origin according to Morgan, 69;
place in the evolution of forms of marriage and the family, 55-65,
179;
at dawn of Teutonic history, 156;
place of, in the rise of the marriage contract, 179-201;
whether a universal phase of evolution, 179, 180;
coexistence with wife-capture, 180-84;
extent of the custom, 184, 185;
by exchange, 185, 186;
by service, 186-89;
for a price, 189-201;
implies economic advancement, 201, 202;
coexistent with free marriage, 210-20;
not found among some low tribes, 217, 218;
significance of gifts, 218, 219;
checks divorce, 249 and n. 1;
its existence among the Old English and early Germans, 253-86.

Wilda, W. E.: on adultery among early Germans, ii, 35.

Wilken, G. A.: on Arabian marriages, i, 17 and n. 3.

Willard, Frances E.: leader of crusade against age-of-consent laws,
iii, 196.

Willcox, Walter F.: cited, iii, 206 n. 2;
on the divorce rate in United States and Europe, 210 and n. 5,
211;
marriage and divorce rates fall in hard times, 215;
influence of legislation on the divorce rate, 216-18;
uniform laws of Switzerland, 222 n. 3.

Willey _v._ Willey, iii, 151.

William the Conqueror: his separation of lay and ecclesiastical
jurisdictions, Cartwright on, i, 411, 412.

Willis and Bowne: their petition, ii, 292, 293.

Windsor: regulates single men, ii, 152, 153.

Winslow, Edward: imprisoned in the Fleet for solemnizing marriage,
ii, 131, 132.

Winsor, Justin: cited, i, 9 n. 1.

Winthrop, Governor John: his testimony as to civil marriage,
ii, 127;
reason for not at first requiring it by statute, 132 n. 5;
on the law of adultery, 170 n. 1;
pre-contract, 179 n. 2;
Bellingham's marriage, 210, 211.

Winthrop, Widow: courted by Sewall, ii, 205, 207, 208.

Wintun, i, 146 n. 1, 217.

Wisconsin: marriage celebration in, ii, 462, 463, 265;
witnesses, 265;
unauthorized solemnization, 468;
definition, 471;
age of consent and of parental consent to marriage, 472, 473;
forbidden degrees, 473-75;
void and voidable marriages, 475-78;
license, 487, 488;
return, 489 and n. 3, 492;
celebrant's record and marriage certificate, 492;
state registration, 494, 495;
divorce, iii, 122-24;
remarriage, 149;
residence, 155;
notice, 158;
common-law marriage, 177;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 203;
divorce rate, 210.

Withington, C. F.: on consanguine marriages, i, 130 n. 2.

Witnesses at marriage celebration: under law of 1653, i, 426;
required by the Hardwicke Act, 458;
under present English law, 471, 473.

---- in the American colonies: Maryland, ii, 241;
South Carolina, 260;
New Jersey, 310;
Pennsylvania, 318.

---- in the states, Rhode Island, ii, 394;
southern and southwestern, 423;
middle and western, 465, 466;
summary of laws, iii, 190.

Wittenberg consistory: as a model, ii, 70 n. 4.

_Witthum_, or bride-price, i, 259.

Wives by exchange, i, 185, 186;
by service, 186-89.

Wollstonecraft, Mary: her writings, iii, 237, 238.

Woman: her alleged status under mother-right or matriarchy, i,
40-46;
raised by a share in economic functions, 63;
functions of, in sexual selection, 202, 206, 207;
her liberty of choice in marriage, 208, 210;
effect of a share in labor, 211 and n. 4;
tutelage of, among early Germans, 259 n. 4.

---- her treatment as to divorce, at Athens, ii, 12 and n. 3;
among Hebrews, 12, 13, 20 n. 3;
by the Roman law, 14-19, 32;
according to scriptural teaching, 20;
views of the early Fathers, 24-26;
Augustine's view, 27;
that of Basil and others, 28;
Constantine's legislation, 30;
that of Theodosius II., 31, 32;
under early German law, 34-37;
her equality according to Christian principle, 37;
under Æthelberht, 39;
Council of Soissons, 42;
synods of Verberie and Compiègne, 42-44;
penitentials, 45, 46;
mature canon law, 53;
at the Reformation, 62, 65, 66;
English Reformers, 73;
Hooper, 74;
Bucer, 75, 76;
_Reformatio legum_, 79;
Milton, 86, 88-92;
under parliamentary divorce, 105, 106;
present English law, 110, 111, 114-17.

---- her liberation involves the destiny of the family, iii, 235;
early literature regarding, 236 and nn. 1, 2, 3, 237-39, notes;
effect of her new activities, 239-41;
of higher education, 242;
does educated woman shun maternity, 243-45;
effects of coeducation, 246;
of political and economic equality, 246-50;
how involved in the divorce problem, 250-53.

Women: may celebrate marriages in Maine, ii, 393.

Wood's case, ii, 384 and n. 2, 385.

Wood, Thomas D.: on the family life of the future, iii, 258, 259.

Wooer: the male as, i, 202-7;
opportunity for free wooing under wife-purchase, 212.

Wooing gifts, i, 218, 219.

Woolsey, T. D.: on attempted divorce of Hipparete, ii, 12 n. 3;
_porneia_, 20 n. 1;
Jewish law of divorce, 20 n. 3;
Paul's teaching regarding divorce, 21 n. 2;
Hermas's views on divorce, 28 and n. 1;
divorce by mutual consent under Christian emperors, 29, 30;
Constantine's divorce law, 31;
that of Theodosius II., 31, 32;
adultery under Christian emperors, 32 n. 4;
Luther's use of "desertion," 63 n. 1;
Zurich ordinance of 1525, 64, 65;
Luther's penalty for adultery, 67;
Foljambe's case, 82 n. 2;
voidable marriages, 94, 95;
legislative divorce in the New England colonies, ii, 349 n. 2.

Wotjäken: proof-marriages among, i, 49 and n. 2;
wife-lending among, 49, 50;
prostitution of girls, 49 n. 1.

Wren, Bishop: his orders regarding the marriage celebration, i, 417
and n. 3.

Wright, Carroll D.: his report on marriage and divorce, iii, 205,
209, 210;
quoted on migration for divorce, 206;
judicial administration of divorce laws, 207;
influence of legislation, 218;
late marriages, 243;
moral character of divorce, 252, 253.

Wright's case, ii, 191 n. 2.

Wundt, W.: cited, i, 98.

Würtemberg: ordinance of, ii, 68.

Wyandots: position of woman among, i, 45;
polyandry prohibited among, 143 n. 1.

Wyatt, Walter: the Fleet parson, i, 442 n. 1.

Wyoming: marriage celebration in, ii, 464;
witnesses, 465;
unauthorized solemnization, 468;
definition, 470;
age of consent and of parental consent to marriage, 472, 473;
forbidden degrees, 473-75;
void and voidable marriages, 475-78;
license, 487, 488;
return, 489 and n. 3, 491;
marriage certificate, 492;
divorce, iii, 130, 131;
remarriage, 148;
residence, 157;
notice, 158;
courts silent as to common-law marriage, 182;
age of consent to carnal knowledge, 201.

Yaméos: avoid marriage with persons of same community, i, 128.

Young, Ernest: denies _patria potestas_, among Germans, i, 260,
note.

York: its marriage ritual, i, 284, 301, 303-8, 311.

Yucatan: pueblos in, i, 129;
marriage by service, 186;
husband's sole right of divorce, 231.

Yurok, of California: husband's sole right of divorce among, i, 231.

Zara: effects of divorce in, i, 242.

_Zeitehen_, i, 49 and n. 3, 235 n. 1.

Zimmer, H.: on Hindu wife-purchase, i, 197, 198 n. 1.

Zoepfl, H.: on Tacitus's account of the betrothal, 262 n. 2;
canon-law betrothal, 293 n. 1;
divorce among the early Germans, ii, 34 n. 1.

Zulus: bride-price among, i, 193, 194;
love a check to divorce, 248.

Zwingli, Ulrich: his liberal views on divorce, ii, 64.

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