ESPOUSALS, contracts. A mutual promise between a man and a woman to marry
each other, at some other time: it differs from a marriage, because then the
contract is completed. Wood's Inst. 57; vide Dig. 23, 1, 1; Code, 5, 1, 4;
Novel, 115, c. 3, s. 11; Ayliffe's Parerg. 245 Aso & Man. Inst. B. 1, t. 6,
c. 1, Sec. 1.