Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Codex Florentinus, sine numero

De ritu nuptiarum

Modestinus libro primo regularum.  Nuptiae sunt coniunctio maris et feminae et consortium omnis vitae, divini et humani iuris communicatio. (Marriage is the union of a man and a woman, a partnership for life <the norms of which are > imparted by divine as well as human law).

Paulus libro trigesimo quinto ad edictum.  Nuptiae consistere non possunt nisi consentiant omnes, id est qui coeunt quorumque in potestate sunt. (Marriage cannot take place unless everyone involved consents, that is, those who are being united and those in whose power they are).

Digest 23.2.1-3