[42] A poem of Albrecht von Johansdorf, in the collection of "Minnesang-Fruehling" (Collection of Lachman and Moritz Haupt; Leipsic, 1857; S. Hirtel), has this passage:
"waere ez niht unstaete
der Zwein wiben wolte sin fur eigen jehen,
bei diu tougenliche? sprechet, herre, wurre ez iht?
(man sol ez den man erlouben und den vrouwen nicht.)"
The openness, with which two distinct rights, according to sex, are here considered a matter of course, corresponds with views that are found in force even to this day.
[43] Dr. Karl Buecher, "Die Frauenfrage im Mittelalter," Tuebingen.
[44] Dr. Karl Buecher.
[45] Joh. Scherr, "Geschichte der Deutschen Frauenwelt," Leipsic, 1879.
[46] Leon Richter reports in "La Femme Libre" the case of a servant girl in Paris who was convicted of infanticide by the father of the child himself, a respected and religious lawyer, who sat on the jury. Aye, worse: the lawyer in question was himself the murderer, and the mother was entirely guiltless, as, after her conviction, she herself declared in court.