A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[868] Ælfred, 18: Liebermann, Gesetze, 58-61. Cf. Thorpe, op. cit., I,73; Schmid, op. cit., 81, 83; Young, in Essays, 170.

[869] Ælfred, Ecc. Laws, 12: Thorpe, op. cit., I, 47. But Ælfred, op. cit., 29, seems to show that the older practice of payment to the father also existed: Thorpe, I, 52.

[870] The German wette and Anglo-Saxon wed are from the same root as beweddung.

[871] Sohm, Eheschliessung, 30, 31, 317, note.

[872] Ibid., 34, 35; Schroeder, Rechtsgeschichte, 293, 294.

[873] On the oath and Handschlag, see Sohm, op. cit., 47-50; on hand-fasting, Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 39 ff.

[874] On the morning-gift and dower see Heusler, Institutionen, II, 374-79; Thrupp, The Anglo-Saxon Home, 60; Gundling, De emptione uxorum, dote et morgengaba (Helmstedt, 1821); Gengler, Die Morgengaba (Bamberg, 1843); Eckhardt, "Das Witthum," Zeitschrift für deutsches Recht, X, 437 ff.; Grupen, De uxore theotisca, 49-140; Brunner, "Die frankisch-romanische Dos," Berliner Sitzungsber., XXIV, 545 ff.; Siegel, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, 455-57; Friedberg, "Zur Geschichte," ZKR., I, 365, 366; Spirgatis, Verlobung und Vermählung, 14; Schroeder, Güterrecht, I, 84-94 Zoepfl, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, III, 19-21.

[875] Schroeder, Güterrecht, I, 84-89.

[876] Ibid., 89-94.

[877] Glanville, Lib. VI, cap. 1; Phillips, Englische Reichs- und Rechtsgeschichte, II, 381. Compare Schroeder, op. cit., I, 89; II, 24-67, passim; Young, in Essays, 174; Laboulaye, Cond. des femmes, 117 ff., 124 ff.; Grimm, Rechtsalt., 441; and especially the monograph of Ashworth, Das Witthum (Dower) im eng. Recht, 9 ff., 18 ff.