Note 1015 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL

Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 39, note, gives a list of the authors making this mistake. "This belief is stated by Blackstone, Comment., I, 439, and was in his time traditional among English lawyers. Apparently it can be traced to Dr. Goldingham, a canonist who was consulted in the case of Bunting v. Lepingwell (Moore's Reports, 169)": Pollock and Maitland, Hist. of Eng. Law, II, 368, 369, note; Friedberg, op. cit., 314.