Elopement

[from J?eZ^. er, marriage, and loopen» to run; or more probably from Sax. geleoran, (sometimes written ge Uopan,) to depart. Blount,] The voluntary departure of a wife from her husband, to live with an adulterer. Cowell, Tomlins. Wharton, This was always a forfeiture of dower, according to the Imes Sponte vinim mulier fag^ens, et adultera facte, Dote 8oa careat, niai sponsi sponte retracta.