The famous classification of contracts as sponsalia per verba de praesenti and sponsalia per verba de futuro, though its principle was earlier asserted, is due mainly to Peter Lombard;[1069] and through the influence of Alexander III.
The validity of a marriage which had been legally celebrated and which had continued for nearly thirty years was challenged on account of previous secret sponsalia de praesenti.
Then, if the contract were in the form of sponsalia jurata or sworn espousals, the "oath was administered.
The betrothal comes first, and it is always a contract in words of the future tense, corresponding to the sponsalia per verba de futuro of the canonists, which will again be referred to.
The ancient wette or beweddung, handed down through the slightly weakened form of the canonical sponsalia de praesenti, was restored to even more than its original relative importance as compared with the Trauung or nuptials.
It is a striking illustration of the entanglements resulting from the canonical theory that this contract is styled in the record "both sponsalia de futuro and praesenti.
Luther, indeed, perceived the absurdity of the scholastic distinction between sponsalia de praesenti and de futuro; and proposed to retain espousals de futuro or precontracts only in the sense of "conditional betrothals.
There were two classes of spousals--sponsalia de futuro and sponsalia de praesenti: a promise of marriage in the future, and an actual declaration of present marriage.
The results entailed by sponsalia de futuro were less serious.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sponsalia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
