The betrothal is a pre-contract of marriage, a marriage antecontrato by which participants pledge to marry within a year ( usually ). Whether as participants in a contract of purchase sale are known as buyer and seller. The participants of the contract of betrothal is called husband and wife. For which only those involved in this contract ( 41 betrothal; should be called husband and wife. Those not involved betrothal can them be called spouses and not spouses as incorrectly stated.