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when the marriage was to be deferred for more than two years:6 and as they could not marry a girl till she was twelve years old, they could not be betrothed to her till she was ten. The law would not suffer them to trifle to no purpose;7 and under a pretence of being betrothed, to enjoy the privileges of married men.