Note 1317 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
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Burn, Parish Registers, 140 n. 1. By the code of Theodosius, already cited (above, p. 295), when the betrothal was sealed with a kiss, the lover received one-half of the gifts; but the woman, "whether kissing or not kissing, whatsoever she gave, she may ask and have it again": ibid., 140. Compare The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights, 71, 72 (on "Wooing" and the "Condiments of Love").