SPONSALIA

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

  SPONSALIA, or STIPULATIO SPONSALITIA. A promise lawfully made between 
  persons capable of marrying each other, that at some future time they will 
  marry. See Espousals; Ersk. Inst. B. 1, t. 6, n. 3.