[1468] ‘Westgöta-Lagen,’ Codex Recentior, Kirkyu Balker, ch. lii. Additamenta, § 8.
[1469] ‘Uplands-Lagen,’ Aerfdæ Balkær, ch. i. § 4.
[1470] Nordström, ‘Svenska samhälls-författningens historia,’ vol. ii. pp. 15, et seq. Wilda, loc. cit. p. 803. Weinhold, ‘Deutsche Frauen,’ vol. i. p. 304. According to Saxo Grammaticus (‘Historia Danica,’ book v. vol. i. p. 186), a woman was allowed to dispose of her own hand before the days of King Frotho.
[1471] ‘Der Schwabenspiegel,’ Landrecht, § 55.
[1472] Kraut, ‘Die Vormundschaft,’ vol. i. p. 326.
[1473] Weinhold, vol. i. p. 305.
[1474] Quoted in Spencer’s ‘Descriptive Sociology,’ France, p. 38.
[1475] Quoted by de Ribbe, ‘Les familles et la société en France avant la Révolution,’ p. 51.
[1476] Bodin, ‘De Republica,’ book i. ch. iv. p. 31.
[1477] Sully, ‘Memoirs,’ vol. v. p. 180.