Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

JACTITATION OF MARRIAGE, Eng. eccl. law. The boasting by an individual that he
or she has married another, from which it may happen that they will acquire the
reputation of being married to each other. 
  The ecclesiastical courts may in such cases entertain a libel by the party
injured; and, on proof of the facts, enjoin the wrong-doer to perpetual silence;
and, as a punishment, make him pay the costs....

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