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Espousals

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Espousals [fr. sponsalia, Lat.; espouse, Fr.], the act of contracting or affiancing a man and woman to each other; the ceremony of betrothing.

A mental promise between a man and woman to money one another, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 566.

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