| Chapter XII. Obligatory Civil Marriage in the New England Colonies |
121-226 |
| I. The Magistrate Supersedes the Priest at the Nuptials |
125-143 |
| II. Banns, Consent, and Registration |
143-151 |
| III. Courtship, Proposals, and Government of Single Persons |
152-169 |
| IV. Pre-contracts, Bundling, and Sexual Immorality |
169-200 |
| V. Breach of Promise and Marriage Portions |
200-209 |
| VI. Self-Gifta, Clandestine Contracts, and Forbidden Degrees |
209-215 |
| VII. Slave-Marriages |
215-226 |
| Chapter XIII. Ecclesiastical Rites and the Rise of Civil Marriage in the Southern Colonies |
227-263 |
| I. The Religious Ceremony and Lay Administration in Virginia |
228-239 |
| II. Optional Civil Marriage and the Rise of Obligatory Religious Celebration in Maryland |
239-247 |
| III. The Struggle for Civil Marriage and Free Religious Celebration in North Carolina |
247-259 |
| IV. Episcopal Rites by Law and Free Civil or Religious Celebration by Custom in South Carolina and Georgia |
260-263 |
| Chapter XIV. Optional Civil or Ecclesiastical Marriage in the Middle Colonies |
264-327 |
| I. New York |
266-308 |
| a) Law and Custom in New Netherland |
267-284 |
| b) Law and Custom under the Duke of York |
284-296 |
| c) Law and Custom in the Royal Province |
296-308 |
| II. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware |
308-327 |
| a) Law and Custom in New Jersey |
308-315 |
| b) Law and Custom in Pennsylvania and Delaware |
315-327 |
| Chapter XV. Divorce in the American Colonies |
328-387 |
| I. In New England |
330-366 |
| a) Massachusetts |
330-348 |
| b) New Hampshire, Plymouth, and New Haven |
348-353 |
| c) Connecticut |
353-360 |
| d) Rhode Island |
360-366 |
| II. English Divorce Laws in Abeyance in the Southern Colonies |
366-376 |
| Arbitration and Divorce in the Middle Colonies |
376-387 |
| Chapter XVI. A Century and a Quarter of Marriage Legislation in the United States, 1776-1903 |
388-497 |
| I. The New England States |
388-408 |