Espousals
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A mutual promise between a man and a woman to marry each other at some other time. It differs from a marriage, because then the contract is completed.
Wood, Inst. 57.
ESPURIO (Spanish). A spurious child; one begotten on a woman who has promiscuous intercourse with many men. White, New Recop. bk.
1, tit. 5, c. 2, § 1.