Assertion: betrothal's marriage | /r/HasProperty | contracted by the consent of the parties
Facets:
value: solely
type: MANNER
value: with the result
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: These earlier opinions were gradually displaced as theological and legal opinion crystallized around the Roman law principle that marriage was contracted solely by the consent of the parties, with the result that the words or other "equivalent signs" expressing the mutual consent came to be considered the form of the sacrament of matrimony as well as what created the marriage bond joining the couple for life.