Martene, E.: his De ritibus cited, i, 287,
293, 295 n. 5, 297 n. 1, 300 and n. 2, 301 n. 2,
307 and n. 1, 308.

Martial: on divorce, ii, 18, note.

Martius, C. F. Ph. v.: on marriage by ser-
vice in Brazil, i, 186.

Maryland, the colony: slave baptisms in,
ii, 221; optional civil marriage and
rise of obligatory religious marriage,
239-47; separate alimony, not divorce,
granted, 371-74; question of common-
law marriage, iii, 172.

the state: celebration of marriage
in, ii, 414, 415; witnesses, 423; marriage
of freedmen, 426; age of parental con-
sent, 429, 430; forbidden degrees, 433-35;
void or voidable marriages, 435 n. 3, 436,
437; miscegenation forbidden, 439; has
dual system of banns or license, 444;
license, by whom issued, 447; certifi
cate to married pair, 450; return, 449;
Quakers keep records of their mar-
riages, 451; legislative divorce, iii, 31-
35; judicial divorce, 55-57; remarriage,
80; residence, 86; process, 89; rejects
common-law marriage, 180; age of con-
sent to carnal knowledge, 199.
Maskell, W.: his Monumenta cited, 1, 284
n. 1, 297 n. 1, 288, 301 n. 2, 304, notes, 305
n. 2, 307, notes, 311 n. 4, 312 n. 1.
Mason, O. T.: quoted, i, 250.
Masson, D.: on Quaker marriages, ii, 316,
Massachusetts, the colony and province:
county courts of, had equity jurisdic-
tion, ii, 125 n. 1; influence of theocracy
in, 125; first law regarding marriage
celebration, 133; commissioners to join
in marriage, 133, 134, notes; rise of reli-
gious marriage, 138 and n. 4, 195; treat-
ment of single persons, 154-57; of mar-
ried persons living apart, 158-61; laws
governing courtship, 164, 165; these laws
executed by the courts, 165, 166; scarlet
letter for adultery, 174-76; for incest,
177, 178; pre-contract, 179; espoused
wife may be punished for adultery, 180;
bundling, 183, 184; cases of fornication
before marriage, 186 n. 3; breach of
promise suits, 200-203; clandestine mar-
riages, 210, 211; forbidden degrees, 212-
15; slave marriages, 216-26; divorce
during first charter, 330-39; during sec-
ond charter, 339-48; question of com-
mon-law marriage, iií, 173.

the state: solemnization of marriage
in, ii, 389, 390; unauthorized celebra-
tion, 395; age of parental consent to
marriage, 396, 397; law forbidding mis-
cegenation repealed, 399; survival of
optional system of banns or posting,
402; certificate and record, 403, 404;
return, 405, 406; collection and record
of statistics, 406, 407; jurisdiction,
kinds, and causes of divorce, iii, 4-10;
remarriage, 18; Putnam v. Putnam, 19,
20; residence, 22, 23; notice, 27; alimony,
29, 30; rejects common-law marriage,
178, 179; age of consent to carnal knowl
edge, 198; what justices may solemnize
marriages, ii, 390; iii, 190; divorce rate,
209, 212 n. 1; marriage rate, 215.

Maternal system of kinship: Wester-
marck on, i, 18; later than paternal, ac-
cording to Starcke, 18; rejected for
Indo-Germanic peoples by recent
writers, 19, 20; Dargun on, 20-23;
whether among Romans, 32 n. 1; Bach-
ofen's view, 40, 41; as evidence of prom-
iscuity, 48; Morgan's theory, 66; Mc-
Lennan's theory, 77-79; the problem of,
107-17.

Mather, Cotton: cited, ii, 170, 179 n. 2.
Mather, Increase: on Vanderbosk, ii,
137 n. 3; against marriage with sister-
in-law, 213.

Matriarchate: works on, i, 37, 38; dis-
tinguished from mother-right, 44-46;
Hellwald on, 60; Grosse on, 60, 61.
Matthew, St.: on divorce, ii, 19, 20, 21, 24.
Maule, Justice: on injustice of the
system of parliamentary divorce, ii,
108, 109.

Mayas: marriage by service among, i,

186.

Mayfair: clandestine marriages in, i, 443.
Megapolensis, Dominie, ii, 291 n. 4, 378.
Meister v. Moore, iii, 178.

Mejer, O.: cited, ii, 65, notes, 171 n. 3.
Melanchthon, Philip: his liberal views
on divorce, ii, 65; favors death or exile
for adultery, 66 and n. 5; inclines to
concubinage rather than allow full
divorce, 71.

Melanesians: wife-capture among, i, 159;
free betrothal, 214.

Mentzer, B.: on divorce, ii, 68.
Mercatio: bride-price
Goths, i, 265 n. 1.

among West

Metellus, the Macedonian: sentiment of,
regarding marriage, ii, 17.
Metrocracy, i, 44 n. 1.

Meurer, C.: on divorce jurisdiction, ii,
71 n. 1.

Mexico, ancient: only the rich in, had
plurality of wives, i, 146 n. 1.
Meyrick, F.: on benediction, i, 293 n. 3,
295 n. 5, 296 n. 1, 294 n. 3; marriage in
church, 295 n. 6; on sentiment of
early theologians regarding marriage,
328, 329; on forbidden degrees, 352, 353.
Michaelis, J. D.: on Hebrew parental
authority, i, 17 n. 5.

Michigan: marriage celebration in, ii,
461, 462; witnesses, 465; unauthorized
solemnization, 468; definition, 471; age
of consent to marriage, 472; forbidden
degrees, 473-75; void and voidable mar-
riages, 475-78; allows miscegenation,
479; marriages of persons tainted by
certain diseases restrained, 479; license,
487, 488; return, 489 and n. 3, 491; mar
riage certificate and celebrant's record,
492; state registration, 494; legislative
divorce, iii, 96; judicial divorce, 120-22;
remarriage, 147, 148; residence, 154, 155;
intervention of prosecuting attorney in
divorce suits, 159; divorce statistics,
160; common-law marriage, 177; age of

consent to carnal knowledge, 202; di-
vorce rate, 210, 211.
Micronesians: punishment of adultery
among, i, 106 n. 4; free courtship, 214.
Middlesex county, Mass.: cases of pre-
nuptial incontinence, with confessions
and penalties, ii, 189, 190, 193, 194.
Mielziner, M.: on Jewish marriage law,
ii, 152 n. 2, 199 and n. 5; the Jewish
"Get," ii, 13 n. 4.

Migration for divorce, iii, 205, 206.
Milford v. Worcester, iii, 178, 179.
Mill, J. S.: on marriage rate, iii, 213, 214;
cited on individualism, 225 n. 1; on
woman's callings, 241; effects of her
subjection, 245 n. 2.

Mill, Mrs. J. S.: cited, iii, 239, note, 245,
247 n. 2.

Millenary Petition, i, 398, 414 n. 3, 415.
Milton, John: on Bucer, i, 411 n. 2; the
corruption of the ecclesiastical courts,
414 n. 1; civil marriage, 433, 434; porneia,
ii, 20 n. 1; characterizes Gratian and
Peter Lombard, 52 n. 1; rejects divorce
a mensa, 61 n. 2; use of allegorical
method, 61 n. 3; analysis of his views
on divorce, 85-92; his conception of
wedlock realized in New England
colonies, 127; divorce by mutual con-
sent, iii, 251.

Minahassers of Celebes: free courtship
among, i, 215.

Minnesota: marriage celebration in, ii,
462, 463, 465; witnesses, 265; unauthor-
ized solemnization, 468; definition, 471;
age of consent and of parental consent
to marriage, 472, 473; forbidden de-
grees, 473-75; void or voidable mar-
riages, 475-78; marriage of epileptic
and imbecile restrained, 480; license,
486, 487; return, 489 and n. 3, 491; mar-
riage certificate, 492; state registra-
tion, 495; legislative divorce, iii, 97;
judicial divorce, 124, 125; remarriage,
148; residence, 155; soliciting divorce
business forbidden, 160; common-law
marriage, 177; age of consent to carnal
knowledge, 201.

Ministers as celebrants of marriage: de-
fects in the present laws regarding, iii,
186-89.

Miscegenation: forbidden in Maine and
formerly in Rhode Island and Massa-
chusetts, ii, 398, 399; in the southern
and southwestern states, 438-40; mid-
dle and western states, 478, 479; law
of Massachusetts colony on, 218; of
Maryland colony, 244; North Carolina
colony, 253.

Mishnah: on divorce, ii, 13 n. 4, 14.
Mississippi: marriage celebration in, ii,
417, 418; requisites for a legal marriage,
424; license essential to valid marriage,
425; marriage a civil contract, 427; age
of parental consent, 429; forbidden
degrees, 433, 434; void or voidable mar-
riages, 435 n. 3, 436, 437; miscegenation
forbidden, 438, 440; license system, 447;

license bond, 448; return 449, 450; legis-
lative divorce, iii, 38, 39; judicial di-
vorce, 64-66; remarriage, 83; residence,
85, 86; process, 89; rejects common-
law marriage, 180, 181; age of consent
to carnal knowledge, 200.

Missouri: marriage celebration in, ii,
417, 418; a civil contract, 427; age of
parental consent, 429, 430; forbidden de-
grees, 433; void or voidable marriages,
435, 437; miscegenation forbidden, 438,
440; original triple system of banns,
notice, or license, 443; present system,
447; certificate to married pair, 450;
return, 449, 450; celebrant's record, 451;
legislative divorce, iii, 38; judicial di-
vorce, 66-68; remarriage, 82; residence,
87; process, 89; guilty wife forfeits
dower, 94, 95; common-law marriage,
176; age of consent to carnal knowl
edge, 198.

Mohammedans. (See Islam, Arabs.)
Möllendorff, P. J. v.: on divorce in China,
i, 236 and n. 1.

Moloch, the Carthaginian, i, 51.
Monogamic family: according to Morgan,
i, 70; among animals, 96, 97; always
the typical form, 150, 222, 223; iii, 224.
Monogamy: hetairistic, i, 56–58; among
lower animals, 96, 97; the rule among
Veddahs and American aborigines,
142, 143 and n. 1; among Mohammedans,
142; monogamy the typical form of
sexual life, 150; iii, 224, 225.
Montana: marriage celebration in, ii,
464; witnesses, 465; marriage by dec-
laration, 467; unauthorized solemni-
zation, 468; requisites for legal mar-
riage, 469; 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, 491; mar-
riage certificate, 492; legislative di-
vorce, iii, 98; judicial divorce, 138, 139;
remarriage. 149; residence, 156; notice,
158; soliciting divorce business for-
bidden, 160; courts silent as to com-
mon-law marriage, 182; age of consent
to carnal knowledge, 202.
Moore, G. H.: on slavery in Massa-
chusetts, ii, 217, 221, 222, 223, 224-26.
Morgan, H. D.: on porneia, ii, 20 n. 1.
Morgan, Lewis H.: his works, i, 34, 65 n.
4; works on, 36, 76 n. 3; his construct-
ive theory analyzed, 65-70; criticism
of his theory, 70-76; his Systems of
Consanguinity, 66, 67; his five stages
in evolution of the family and mar-
riage, 67-70; on origin of aversion to
close intermarriage, 122; on polygyny,
150.

Morganatic or "left-hand" marriages,
i, 255, 256.

Morning-gift, i, 269 and n. 2.

Morocco: divorce in, i, 241, 243 n. 3, 244

n. 2.

Morong, i, 36.

Mother-group, of Hellwald, i, 58-60,
102 n. 1.

Mother-right: discussion of, i, 33-89;
authorities on, 33-38; Bachofen's view,
40-43; distinguished from gynocracy,
44-46; definition, 44 n. 1; according to
Hellwald, 60, 61; according to Grosse,
60-63; relation of totemism to, 74; the
problem of, 110–17.

Moxos: divorce among, i, 239.

Mucke, J. R.: his Horde und Familie, i,

37, 63-65, 71; on alleged advantages of
close intermarriage, 130 n. 2.

Muirhead, J. H.: quoted, iii, 230; on
educated women and maternity, 244,
245.

Müller, Max: his Sacred Books of the
East, i, 4, 5; on maternal family, 20
and n. 2.

Mulford, E.; cited, iii, 225 n. 1.
Mund: Kohler and others on, i, 256; its
relation to betrothal, 260 and n. 1, 261.
Mundingos, the African: divorce among,
i, 226 n. 3.

Muntschatz, or bride-price, i, 259 n. 3.
Murdoch, John: on Point Barrow natives,
i, 143 n. 1, 187 n. 3, 212 n. 3; free divorce
among, 227, 228 and n. 1.

Muscovy: wife-capture in, i, 159.
Muskogees: divorce rare among, i, 247
n. 6.

Mylitta, i, 51.

Nairs: polyandry among, i, 80, 81.
Nantes, Council of: enforces doctrine of
indissolubility, ii, 39.

Naquet, A.: quoted, iii, 168 n. 2; cited,
216 n. 4.

Natchez: effects of divorce among, i,
242; divorce rare, 247 n. 6.
Natural selection: produces exogamy, i,
131; also polyandry, 136; and sex of off-
spring, 138, 139; its relation to sexual
selection, 202, 206.

Naumann, F.: on religious duty of child-
bearing, iii, 255 n. 1.

Navajo: bride-price among, i, 193; di-
vorce, 239.

Nebraska: marriage celebration in, ii,
464; witnesses, 265; unauthorized sol-
emnization, 468; definition, 470; age of
consent and of parental consent to
marriage, 472, 473; forbidden degrees,
473-75; void and voidable marriages,
475-78; miscegenation forbidden, 479;
license, 188; return, 489 and n. 3, 491;
marriage certificate, 492; legislative
divorce, iii, 97; judicial divorce, 129;

remarriage, 148; residence, 157; notice,
158; common-law marriage, 177; age of
consent to carnal knowledge, 201.
Nevada: marriage celebration in, ii, 463,
464, 465; witnesses, 465; definition, 471;
age of consent and of parental con
sent to marriage, 472, 473; forbidden
degrees, 473-75; void and voidable
marriages, 475-78; miscegenation re-
strained, 479; license, 487, 488; return,
489 and n. 3, 491; marriage certificate
and celebrant's record, 492; divorce,
iii, 142, 143; remarriage, 148; residence,
157; common-law marriage, 177; age of
consent to carnal knowledge, 202.
New Britain aborigines, i, 94 n. 1; liberty
of female choice among, 214, 215.
New Caledonia: free courtship in, i, 214.
New Guinea: wife-capture in, i, 159; wife
on credit for service, 188 n. 2; no di-
vorce among Papuas, 228, 229 n. 1.
New Hampshire, the province: civil mar-
riage in, ii, 134; scarlet letter for adul
tery, 172; for incest, 178; pre-contract,
179; espoused wife treated as married
woman, 180 n. 3; clandestine marriages,
211 n. 4; divorce, 348, 349.

the state: celebration of marriages
in, ii, 391, 392; reputed marriages, 394;
unauthorized solemnization, 395; age
of consent to marriage, 395, 396; first
cousins may not marry, 397; former
system of banns, 402; certificate, 404;
return, 406; collection and record of
statistics, 407 and n. 6; jurisdiction,
kinds, and causes of divorce, iii, 10-13;
remarriage, 21; residence, 23; as to
common-law marriage, 179; age of con-
sent to carnal knowledge, 198; divorce
rate, 210, 212 n. 1; license five days be-
fore celebration, 191.

Newhall, J. R.: on divorce in Massachu-
setts colony, ii, 332.

New Haven, the colony: influence of the
theocracy in, ii, 125; obligatory civil
marriage, 135; marriage administra
tion, 148; treatment of single persons,
153; regulates courtship, 164; espoused
wife may be punished for adultery, 180;
divorce, 352, 353.

New Jersey, the colony: optional civil or
ecclesiastical marriage in, ii, 308; act of
1668, 309; law of the twenty-four pro-
prietors, 309-11; act of 1682, 311; Church
of England set up, 312; instructions of
bishop of London, 312; act of 1719, 312,
313; attempt of clergy to force religious
marriage, 314, 315; divorce, 385.

the state: celebration of marriages
in, ii, 455, 456; witnesses, 466; age of
parental consent to marriage, 472, 473;
forbidden degrees, 473-75; void and
voidable marriages, 475-78; license for
non-residents, 485; return, 491; cele-
brant's record, 492; state registration,
493; divorce, iii, 105-7; remarriage, 146;
residence, 153; common-law marriage,
177; license for non-residents five days
before celebration, ii, 485; iii, 192; age
of consent to carnal knowledge, 202.

New London, Conn,: wedding-feast at,
ii, 142.

New Mexico: marriage celebration in,
ii, 417 n. 4; marriage a civil contract,
427; age of consent and of parental
consent, 428, 429; void or voidable mar-
riages, 435 n. 3, 437, 438; favors mar-
riage, 441; return, 449, 450; celebrant's
record, 451; judicial divorce, iii, 74-76;
remarriage, 82; residence, 87; notice,
88; courts silent as to common-law
marriage, 181; age of consent to carnal
knowledge, 200.

New Netherland: marriage laws of, in-
fluenced by those of Guelderland, ii,
268; civil matrimonial administration
with religious celebration, 268, 269;
Stuyvesant's letter on notice of inten
tions, 269; the first ordinance, 270; half-
marriage after banns, 271; bundling,
271, 272; form of notice on the Dela-
ware, 273; civil courts have jurisdic-
tion, 273; case of Beeck and Verleth,
274-77; informal marriage de praesenti
not valid, 277; case of Laers, 277, 278;
cases of Fabricius and Doxy, 278, 279;
adultery, 280; breach of promise, 281,
282; wills and contracts at second mar-
riage, 282-84; divorce and arbitration,
376-82.

New York, the colony: bundling in, ii,
181; marriage law and custom in New
Netherland, 267-84; under the Duke of
York, 284; optional civil marriage, 285-
87; registration, 288; wife-harboring
punished, 288; remarriage after long
absence, 289; case of self-marriage,
289, 290; Avery's offenses, 290, 291; com-
plaints of marriages by justices, 291;
Quaker marriages, 291-94; Dongan Act,
294-96; law and custom in the royal
province, 296-300; question of law after
1691,300, 301; Lauderdale Peerage case,
301-6; evidence of John Rodgers, 306-8;
divorce in New Netherland, 376-82; di-
vorce in royal province, 382-85.

the state: slave baptism and slave
marriage, ii, 453; solemnization, 453;
common-law marriage abolished, 454,
455; Indian marriages, 455; witnesses,
465; unauthorized solemnization, 468;
definition, 471; age of consent to mar-
riage, 472; forbidden degrees, 473-75;
void and voidable marriages, 475-78;
substitute for license system, 484, 485;
return, 490, 491; marriage certificate
and celebrant's record, 492; state regis-
tration, 495-97; divorce, iii, 101-5; re-
marriage, 102, 103, 104, 145; Van Voorhis
v. Brintnall, 145; Smith v. Woodworth,
146; residence, 152, 153; notice, 158 n. 3;
soliciting divorce business forbidden,
160; common-law marriage, 175; age of
consent to carnal knowledge, 201; di-
vorce rate, 216, 217.

New Zealand: wife-capture in, i, 159.

and Tasmania: divorce rate, iii, 211,
note.

Nez-Percés: runaway bride among, re-
garded as a prostitute, i, 184 n. 2.

Niassers of Batu: no divorce among, i,
229.

Niblack, A. P.: quoted, i, 143 n. 1.
Nicaragua aborigines: divorce rare
among, i, 247 n. 6.

Nicholas, Pope: his letter to the Bul-
garians on marriage in church, i, 295
n. 6.

Nikah al-mot'a marriage, i, 227 n. 1.
Nisbet, Judge: his decision in Head v.
Head, ii, 375, 376; iii, 46–50.

Nisi: the decree in England, ii, 113, 114.
(See Decree nisi.)

Niyoga, i, 84 and n. 2, 133.

Noble, John: his edition of assistants'
records, ii, 332.

Nomenclatures: as basis of so-called
systems of consanguinity, i, 70-73.
Norfolk's case, ii, 104, 105.

Northampton's case, ii, 80 and n. 4, 103.
North Carolina, the colony: struggle for
free civil marriage in, ii, 247; first mar-
riage law, 249, 250; liberty of Quakers,
250; vestries act, establishing ecclesi-
astical rites, 252; governor's license,
252; act of 1741, 252-54; law of 1766, 254-
59; question of common-law marriage,
iii, 172.

the state: celebration of marriage
in, ii, 415; requisites for a legal mar-
riage, 424; age of consent, 428, 429; age
of parental consent, 429; forbidden
degrees, 433, 434; void or voidable mar-
riages, 455 n. 3, 437, 438; miscegenation
forbidden, 439; survival of dual system
of banns and license, 443; present
license system, 447; return, 449; legis-
lative divorce, iii, 36-38; judicial di-
vorce, 57, 58; remarriage, 80, 81; resi-
dence, 86, 87; notice, 88; trial by jury,
90; alimony, property, and care of
children, 91, 92-94; rejects common.
law marriage, 180; age of consent to
carnal knowledge, 200.

North Dakota: marriage celebration, ii,
463, 464; witnesses, 465; 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, 488; return, 489 and n. 3,
491; divorce, iii, 142; remarriage, 149;
residence, 156, 157; courts silent as to
common-law marriage, 182; age of con-
sent to carnal knowledge, 201.
Northwest Territory: marriage laws of,
ii, 458, 459; divorce laws, iii, 113.
"Northumbrian Priests, Law of": denies
remarriage after divorce, ii, 40.
Notice to defendant in divorce suits:
in New England, iii, 25-27; southern
and southwestern states, 88, 89; middle
and western states, 158.
Nugent, Mr.: on the Hardwicke Act, i,
449, 452 n. 1, 453, 454 n. 1, 455 n. 1, 458.
Nullity: decree of, equivalent to divorce
under the canon law, ii, 56-59.

Ogle, W.: on the marriage rate, iii, 214.
Ohio: marriage celebration in, ii, 458-60;
irregular marriage, 470; definition,
471; age of consent and of parental
consent to marriage, 472, 473; forbidden
degrees, 473-75; void and voidable mar-
riages, 475-78; optional system of banns
and license, 483, 484; return, 490, note,
491; divorce, iiì, 113-15; remarriage,
147; residence, 155; soliciting divorce
business forbidden, 160; divorce statis-
tics, 160; common-law marriage, 177;
age of consent to carnal knowledge,
202; divorce rate, 209, 211.

Oklahoma: marriage celebration in, ii,
417, 418; witnesses, 423; requisites for
a legal marriage, 424; a civil contract,
427; age of consent and of parental
consent, 428, 429; forbidden degrees,
433; void and voidable marriages, 437,
438; miscegenation forbidden, 439; li-
cense system, 447; return, 449; divorce,
iii, 72; remarriage, 83; residence, 87;
separate alimony, 92; courts silent as
to common-law marriage, 181; age of
consent to carnal knowledge, 199.
Olaus, Magnus: cited, i, 159.

Old bachelors: not favored in early New
England, ii, 152-57.

Old English Homilies: cited, i, 300 n. 1.
Old maids in early New England, ii, 157,
158, 167.

Oleepa Indians: symbolical rape among,
i, 167.

Omahas, i, 144 n. 3; elopement among, i,

167, 168; free courtship, 212 n. 4; effects
of divorce, 242 n. 1.

Opet, O.: on legal condition of early
German woman, i, 257, 263 and n. 4;
wife-capture among Germans, 258 n. 1.
Oppenheim, O. G.: cited, i, 458 n. 2, 461
n. 2, 462, 469 nn. 2, 3, 470 nn. 1, 2.
Orator: in the nuptial ceremony, i, 281,
282 n. 2, 309.

Oregon: marriage celebration in, ii, 463;
witnesses, 465; unauthorized solem-
nization, 468; definition, 470; age of
consent and of parental consent to
marriage, 472, 473; forbidden degrees,
473-75; void and voidable marriages,
475-78; miscegenation forbidden, 479;
license, 487; return, 489 and n. 3, 491;
marriage certificate, 492; legislative
divorce, iii, 98; judicial divorce, 133-
35; remarriage, 148; residence, 156;
notice, 158; intervention of district
attorney in divorce suits, 159; rejects
common-law marriage, 181; age of con-
sent to carnal knowledge, 202.
Oregon Indians: wedding gifts among,
i, 220, 221.

Origen, ii, 28 n. 4.

Orleans, councils of: enforce doctrine of
indissolubility, ii, 39.

Ormulum: cited, i, 300 n. 1.
Otomis, i, 238 n. 1.

Owen, Hana: her marriage annulled, ii,
215.

Owen, Robert: his views as to marriage
and the family, iii, 232-34.

Owen, Robert Dale: his views on mar-
riage, iii, 234.

Pádams, i, 217, 218.

Pairing family, i, 89-151.

Pairing season among primitive men, i,
99, notes.

Palau Islanders: certainty of fatherhood
among, i, 111.

Palfrey, J. G.: on slavery in New Eng-
land, ii, 216.

Palmer, W.: on espousals, i, 283 n. 4.
Panches of Bogota: intermarriages
among, i, 128.

Papuas of New Guinea: no divorce
among, i, 228.

Paraguay aborigines:

divorce rare

among, i, 247 n. 6.
Paradox, the: regarding marriage, i, 325,
326, 329 n. 2.

Pardessus: on the betrothal, i, 274 n. 2.
Parental consent to courtship: regulated
in early New England, ii, 161-66.

to marriage: not required for valid
contract by the canonists, i, 338; de-
manded by the German Reformers, 371,
372 and n. 1; required by Cromwell's
Act of 1653, 418; marriage by license
void without, under Hardwicke Act,
459; hardships caused by this provi-
sion, 463 and n. 4, 464.

to marriage in American colonies, ii,
143; Plymouth, 144; Rhode Island, 148-
51; New Netherland, 268, 269; New
York, 286, 287; New Jersey, 309, 310, 313;
Pennsylvania, 318, 319.

to marriage in the states. (See Age
of parental consent to marriage.)
Parish registers: local officers elected
under the law of 1653, i, 418, 426; duties
of, well performed, 426-31.
Parish registers: the records kept during
the Commonwealth, i, 404, 405, 426 and
n. 3, 427-31.

Parliamentary divorce: in England, ii,
102-9. (See Divorce, parliamentary.)
Parsons, Chief Justice: his decision in
Milford v. Worcester, iii, 178, 179, 185.
Parthians: temporary marriages among,
i, 49.

Parton v. Hervey, ii, 462 n. 7; iii, 179 n. 1,
191 n. 2.

Patagonians: free marriage among, i,
212 and n. 4.

Patriarchal family: Maine's theory of, i,
409-13; rejected as social unit by Mor-