[13] Venedotian Code, ii. 1. 16. According to the ‘Laws of the Brets and Scots,’ the estimate of a married woman is less by a third part than that of her husband, whereas the estimate of an unmarried woman is equal to that of her brother (Innes, Scotland in the Middle Ages, p. 181).
[14] Grimm, Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer, p. 404 sqq.
[15] This point of view is very conspicuous in the Salic Law (Lex Salica [Herold’s text], 28).
[16] Wilda, op. cit. p. 571. Keyser, op. cit. ii. pt. ii. 29. Brunner, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, ii. 614 sq. Pardessus, Loi Salique, p. 662.
[17] Post, Anfänge des Staats- und Rechtsleben, p. 192. Idem, Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Familienrechts, p. 119 sq. Gibbs, ‘Tribes of Western Washington and North-western Oregon,’ in Contributions to North American Ethnology, i. 190. Georgi, Russia, ii. 261; Vámbéry, Türkenvolk, p. 305 (Kirghiz). Decle, Three Years in Savage Africa, p. 487 (Wakamba).
[18] Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes of the United States, i. 277 (Creeks). Dorsey, ‘Omaha Sociology,’ in Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethn. iii. 370. Woodthorpe, in Jour. Anthr. Inst. xxvi. 21 (Shans).
[19] Post, Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Familienrechts, p. 119 sq.
[20] Paulitschke, Ethnographie Nordost-Afrikas, p. 263.
[21] Loskiel, History of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Indians in North America, i. 16.
[22] Marsden, History of Sumatra, p. 222.