In the popular sense, this terin denotes the contracting of a marriage relation between two persons considered as members of different nations, tribes, families, etc., as, between the sov-ereigns of two different countries, between an American and nn alien, between Indians of different tribes, between the scions of different clans or families. But, in law, it is sometimes used (and with propriety) to emphasize the mutuality of the marriage contract and us importing a reciprocal engagement by which each of the parties “marries'* the other. Thus, in a pleading, Instead of averring that “the plaintiff was married to the defendant,” it would be proper to al-* lege that “the partles intermarried" at such
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
