Note 855 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
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Sohm, op. cit., 29 n. 15; Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 19. Cf., however, Weinhold, op. cit., I, 323, who says that wife-purchase has disappeared from the Bavarian and Alamannian laws. See Pertz and Brunner's ed., Mon. germ. hist.: legum, III, 183-496 (Leges baiuwariorum), 1-182 (Leges alamannorum).