n purely a matter of taste,
sentiment, and popular judgment as to what is right and proper; also it
has been due to the ideas of women in regard to suitable pomp and glory.
The mores have once more taken full control of the matter, and the
religious ceremony is used to satisfy the interests, and fulfill the
faiths, of the population. Such is the effect of civil marriage as
established in the nineteenth century. At the present time the
ministers of religion seem disposed to use their lawful position as the
proper ones to celebrate marriage, that they may impose restrictions on
divorce, and on marriage after divorce.

[1324] Maspero, _Peuples de l'Orient_, I, 736.

[1325] Bergel, _Eheverhaelt. der Juden_, 19.

[1326] Deut. xxii. 29.

[1327] Freisen, _Gesch. des kanon. Eherechts_, 848.

[1328] Freisen, _Gesch. des kanon. Eherechts_, 23, 47, 92-96.

[1329] Lippert, _Kulturgesch._, II, 520.

[1330] Wilkins, _Concilia_, 20.

[1331] Wisen, _Qvinnan i Nordens Forntid_, 7.

[1332] Freisen, _Gesch. des kanon. Eherechts_, 154.

[1333] _Ibid._, 121.

[1334] _Eur. Morals_, II, 298.

[1335] Cf. Freisen, 26.

[1336] Rossbach, _Roem. Ehe._, 9.

[1337] _Ibid._, 62.

[1338] _Novel._, LXXIV, c. 4, sec. 1 (537 A.D.).

[1339] Cf. _Nov._, XXII, c. 3.

[1340] CXVII, c. 4.

[1341] Friedberg, 14-16.

[1342] _Roem. Hochzeits und Ehedenkmaeler_, 49, 107.

[1343] Freisen, 48, 103; Grimm, _D. R. A._, 420.

[1344] II, c. XXX, qu. 5, c. 1.

[1345] Pullan, _Hist. Book of Common Prayer_, 217.

[1346] Friedberg, _Recht der Eheschliessung_, 8.

[1347] _Ibid._, 9.

[1348] Stammler, _Stellung der Frauen_, 27.

[1349] Jenks, _Law and Politics in the Middle Ages_, 251.

[1350] Lehmann, _Verlobung und Hochzeit nach den nordgermanischen
Rechten des frueheren M. A._, 31.

[1351] Wilkins, _Concilia_, I, 216 (644 A.D.).

[1352] Friedberg, 61.

[1353] Freisen, 118.

[1354] Friedberg, 23.

[1355] Freisen, _Kanon. Eherecht_, 92, 96; Bergel, _Eheverhaelt.
der Juden_, 19.

[1356] Rossbach, _Roem. Ehe_, 370.

[1357] Weinhold, _D. F._, I, 399.

[1358] _Gesch. Fried. III_, by AEneas Silvius, trans. Ilgen, II,
95.

[1359] Friedberg, _Recht der Eheschliessung_, 23.

[1360] Friedberg, 58.

[1361] Savigny, _Gesch. des Roem. Rechts im M. A._, II, _Append._

[1362] _Deutsche Frauen_, I, 341.

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