MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT. An agreement made by the parties in contemplation of
marriage by which the title to certain property is changed, and the property
to some extent becomes tied up, and is rendered inalienable. Rice's Eq. R.
315. See 2 Hill, Ch. R. 3; Ril. Ch. Cas. 76; 8 Leigh, 29; 1 Dev. & Bat. Eq.
389; 2 Dev. & Bat. Eq. 103; 1 Bald. 344; 15 Mass. 106; 1 Yeates, 221; 7 Pet.
348; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3947. Vide Settlement, Contracts.