Note 525 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
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The domum deductio was the second act in the patrician marriage ceremony of confarreatio, and in this case it appears to have been a necessary form. But it was probably also observed, as a nuptial custom, in connection with plebeian free marriages as well as in the coemptio: Rossbach, Die römische Ehe, 92 ff., 116, 145, 155, 328 ff.; idem, Hochzeits- und Ehedenkmäler, 39-118. Cf. Marquardt, Privat-Leben, I, 38; Smith, Dict. of Ant., II, 142; Fustel de Coulanges, Ancient City, 55 ff.; Dargun, op. cit., 100 ff.