Show by capture marriage by capture Js a very old nd very widely spread custom it prevails the nin doos the kal mucks and and the primitive races of australia new zealand and america amt instead of abduction being considered an outrage by cheso halt civilized people it Is looked upon as a preliminary marriage rite and as a general rule the coy adamse Is by no means averse to the mild violence abduction beca meso common in england in the reigns of the tudor princes that n statute was passed on the subject and this was followed by an act of elizabeth which took lawny the ban efat of clergy from the offender and it was not fill so late as the reign of george IV that the crime ceased to be a capital and punishable with death |