Note 719 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT (continued 2)

Thus in Lovrec, Dalmatia, where the bride-price is no longer customary, when the Brautführer, on the day before the nuptials, comes to the bride's home for the Brautkiste containing her trousseau, he finds a child sitting upon it, who must be bought off through payment of a piece of gold: Post, op. cit., 177. Sometimes the symbolical purchase coexists for a time with real purchase: ibid., 177; idem, Geschlechtsgenossenschaft, 73; idem, Grundlagen des Rechts, 235.