Note 939 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL
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Dig., xxiii, tit. i, 1: "Sponsalia sunt mentio et repromissio nuptiarum futurarum."—Corpus juris civ., I, 294. Cf. Sohm, Eheschliessung, 109, 110; Klein, Das Eheverlöbniss, 122 ff.