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Definition :

Proxeneta, a kind of broker or agent.

All contracts for marriage (commonly called marri-age-brokage contracts), by which a party engages to give another a compensation if he will negotiate and advantageous marriage for him, are void, as being injurious to or subversive of the public interest; see Hermann v. Charlesworth, (1905) 2 KB 123. But the Civil Law does not seem to have held contracts of this sort in such severe rebuke; for it allowed proxenet', or match-makers, to receive a reward for their services to a limited extent, 1 Story's Eq. Jurisp., s. 260.