CHAPTER IV

. RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT 152-223

I. Wife-Capture and the Symbol of Rape 156-179

II. Wife-Purchase and Its Survival in the Marriage Ceremony 179-201

III. The Antiquity of Self-Betrothal or Free Marriage 201-210

IV. Primitive Free Marriage Surviving with Purchase, and the Decay of the Purchase-Contract 210-223

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