Note 1010 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL
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"Praeterea statutum est, ut nullus filiam suam, vel cognatam, det alicui, absque benedictione sacerdotali. Si aliter feceret, non ut legitimum conjugium, sed ut fornicatorium, judicabitur."—Parker, De antiquitate britannicae ecclesiae (London, 1729), 173; also Wilkins, Concilia, I, 367; Makower, loc. cit.; and translated in Johnson's Canons, II, 19. Cf. Pollock and Maitland, Hist. Eng. Law, II, 368 n. 2.