Note 159 — Book VI.
John Beames translation
Tempore desponsationis. Affiance and Marriage seem to be perfectly distinct things in the Civil and Canon Laws. (Vide Lyndw. Provinc. 271.) but our law books, it is said, use the terms promiscuously, as being synonymous. (See Co. Litt. 34. a. and Mr. Hargrave’s note.)