Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

confederacy clause

Archaic. A clause in a complaint charging that the defendant or de-"Anciently, there were three modes in which marriage might be contracted according to Roman usage, one involving a religious solemnity, the other two the observance of certain secular formalities. By the religious marriage of Confarreation; by the higher form of civil marriage, which was called Coemption; and by the lower form, which was termed Usus, the Husband acquired a number of rights over the person and property of his wife, which were on the whole in excess of such as are conferred on him in any system of modern jurisprudence. But in what capacity did he acquire them? Not as Husband, but as Father. By the Confarreation, Coemption, and Usus, the woman passed in manum uiri, that is, in law she became the Daughter of her husband. She was included in his Patria Potestas .... These threefendants have combined with others (who may yet be named as defendants) to defraud or deprive the plaintiff of personal rights.