Affiance
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
in contracts, from afidare or dare fidem, to give a pledge; a plighting of troth between a man and woman. Litt. s.
39; Pothier, Traité du Mariage, n.
24, defines it to be an. agreement by which a man and a woman promise each other that they will marry together.: f