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Note 850 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE

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Æthelb., 77; Thorpe, Ancient Laws, 22, 23, and n. 3; Schmid, Gesetze, 8, 9. Liebermann, 7, renders the first part of this passage: "Wenn jemand eine Jungfrau [zur Ehe] kauft, sei sie durch [Braut] Kaufgeld [giltig] erkauft, falls das [Rechtsgeschäft] untrügerisch ist." Cf. Poeniten. Theod., XVI, 29; Thorpe, II, 11, or Poeniten. Theod., II, xii, § 34, in Wasserschleben's Bussordnungen, 216; with Confess. Ecgb., § 20: Thorpe, II, 147; or the same in Wasserschleben, 309. See also Schroeder, Güterrecht, I, 51 n. 9.

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