Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Confarreatio

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In Roman law. A sacrificial rite resorted to by marrying persons of high patrician or priestly degree, for the purpose of clothing the husband with the manus over his wife; the civil modes of effecting the same thing being coemptio (formal), and usus mulieris (informal). Brown. CONFECTIO (Lat. from conficere). The making and completion of a written instrument. 5 Coke, 1.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

An ancient Roman marriage ceremony.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Roman law. A sacrificial rite resorted to by marrying persons of high patrician or priestly degree, for the purpose of clothing the husband with the manus over his wlfe; the civil modes of effecting the same thing being coemptio, (formal,) and usus mulieris, (informal.) Brown.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In Roman law. A sacrificial rite resorted to by marrying persons of high patrician or priestly degree, for the purpose of clothing the husband with the manus over his wife; the civil modes of effecting the same thing being coemptio, (formal,) and usus mulieris, (informal.) Brown.