ESPOUSALS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.