The act by which a person interferes, for a con- sideration to be received by him, between a man and a woman, for the purpose of promoting a marriage between them. The money paid for such service is also known by this name. Such contracts are illegal at common law; Show. P. C. 76; 3 P. Wms. 76; 3 Lev. 411; and in equity they are utterlv void, as