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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

Note 938 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL

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Sohm, op. cit., 108 ff. That the church adopted the Roman marriage forms is the generally accepted view: see Sehling, Unterscheidung der Verlöbnisse, 24 ff.; Schubert, Die evangel. Trauung, 4 ff.; Scheurl, Entwicklung des kirch. Eheschliessungsrechts, 8 ff.; idem, "Consensus facit nuptias," ZKR., XXII, 269 ff.; Biener, "Beiträge," ibid., XX, 119, 120; Richter-Dove-Kahl, Lehrbuch, 1029, 1030; Loening, Gesch. des deutsch. Kirchenrechts, II, 569 ff.; Dieckhoff, Kirchliche Trauung, 12 ff.; Moy, Eherecht der Christen, 94 ff., 215 ff., 372 ff.

On the other hand, Freisen, in Archiv für kath. Kirchenrecht, LIII, 369 ff., holds that the early Christians followed mainly Jewish custom. Cf. idem, Geschichte des canon. Eherechts, 120 ff.

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