Note 852 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE

Opet, Die erbrechtliche Stellung der Weiber in der Zeit der Volksrechte, 82 ff. This monograph may be compared with that of Amira, Erbenfolge und Verwandtschaftsgliederung nach dem altniederdeutschen Rechte, 83, 84. Roeder, Die Familie bei den Angelsachsen, 15 ff., takes a conservative position. In general on old English marriage see Phillips, Geschichte des angelsächs. Rechts, 129-33; Davoud-Oghlou, II, 355-60; Young, in Essays, 163 ff.; Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 33 ff.; Lingard, Anglo-Saxon Church (2d ed.), I, 6 ff.; Traill, Social England, I, 215, 216; Gide, Étude sur la cond. privée de la femme, 237, 196 ff.; Pollock and Maitland, Hist. of Eng. Law, II, 362 ff.; Buckstaff, in Annals, IV, 233; Ludlow, in Dict. of Christ. Ant., I, 203, 143. There is also a good discussion by Glasson, Hist. du droit et des inst. de l'Angleterre, I, 104-33; an account of the Anglo-Saxon bride in Grupen, De uxore theotisca, 221-55; interesting details in Thrupp, The Anglo-Saxon Home, 19-76; Wright, Hist. of Doms. Manners and Sentiments, 53-56; Turner, Hist. of Manners and Landed Property of Anglo-Saxons, 108, 113-15; and Jeaffreson, Brides and Bridals, I, 32-45, who gives an interesting discussion regarding the Anglo-Saxon woman, as a chattel subject to sale, even in the historical period. "To these ancient arrangements for the transference of women from their fathers to their matrimonial suitors, and for protecting the property in them against nefarious aggressors," he declares, "must be referred the barbarous spirit in which the law still persists in regarding a certain class of atrocious outrages on morality as mere infringements of private right. We reflect with astonishment on the conduct of our distant progenitors, who legalized traffic in womankind, but we persevere, so far as law is concerned, in dealing with the seducer as though his offence were nothing graver than a violation of personal privileges, for which a payment of money to one of the injured persons is the appropriate penalty" (I, 42, 43).