Note 622 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
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Lichtschein, Die Ehe, 11, 12; Mielziner, Jewish Law of Marriage and Divorce, 77 ff. This author's surmise that the symbolical marriage with money was adopted under influence of the Roman coemptio is, of course, not well founded: ibid., 78 n. 2.