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AFFIANCE

AFFIANCE, contracts. From affidare or dare fidem, to give a pledge. A plighting of troth between a man and woman. Litt. s. 39. Pothier, Traite duMariage, n. 24, defines it to be a an agreement by which a man and a womanpromise each other that they will marry together. This word is used by someauthors as synonymous with marriage. Co. Litt. 34, a, note 2. See Dig. 23, 1Code 5, 1, 4; Extrav. 4, 1.

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