Note 566 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
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Dargun, Mutterrecht und Raubehe, 85-87, thinks we have in these forms a transition from actual to formal wife-capture. Possibly they may represent in particular instances transition from capture to purchase. Cf. Post, Familienrecht, 142 ff., 147 ff. for numerous examples; and Kohler, "Studien," ZVR., V, 337 ff.