Note 858 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
Reading edition
Lex wisigoth., lib. iii, tit. i, 2: Walter, Corpus juris germ., I, 466; Ludlow, in Dict. Christ. Ant., I, 203. The bride-money is here called pretium, elsewhere the betrothal is styled mercatio: Brunner, Rechtsgeschichte, I, 74 n. 23. The whole of liber iii, Walter, I, 465-91, relates to marriage and allied matters.