Matrimonium
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In civil law
A legal marriage. A marriage celebrated in conformity with the rules of the civil law was called justum matrimonium; the husband vir, the wife uxor. It was exclusively con- It alone produced the paternal power over the children, and the marital power — manus — over the wife. The farreum, the coemptio, or the usus was indispensable for the formation of this marriage. See "Pater- Familias." MATRIMONIUM SUBSEQUENS TOLLIT peccatum praecedens. A subsequent marriage cures preceding criminality.