Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Matrimonium

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MATRIMO'NIUM. Matrimony, which amongst the Romans was contracted in three ways; by use (usus), when a man lived with a woman for a year; by contract (coemptio), in which the parties went through a mock ceremony of mutually selling themselves to one another; and by a religious solemnity, termed confarreatio, under which term the rites are explained.