A Short History of Women's Rights / From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.

by Eugene A. Hecker

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For all this, see Lex Burgundionum, 24 and 62 and 74. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, Tit. 3. Lex Baiuvariorum, 14. Lex Alemannorum, 55 and 56.

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Lex Wisigothorum, iii, 3, 1.

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Lex Saxonum, iv. In the early days when the Great West of the United States was just being opened up and when society there was in a very crude state, a horse thief was regularly hanged; but murder was hardly a fault.