A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[919] Sohm, op. cit., 67 ff.

[920] Ibid., 67, and the Italian ritual of the eleventh century in Anhang, II, 318, 319.

[921] Friedberg, op. cit., 25 ff., 93 ff., 62.

[922] Sohm, op. cit., 71 ff., 166 n. 31. The Fürsprecher or orator here mentioned, in accordance with the view of Sohm, must not be confused with the forespreca of the old English formulary above quoted; the latter was the guardian himself or a representative—a Processvormund: Sohm, 72.

[923] Sohm, op. cit., 67.

[924] Sohm, ibid., 166 n. 31, concedes this.

[925] A Zusammensprechen: Sohm, op. cit., 73.

[926] Ibid.

[927] A Zusammengeben: ibid.

[928] Ibid., 100 ff.