Note 859 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
Reading edition
Lex burgundionum, tits. 12, 34, 51, 52, 66, 69: Walter, I, 311, 320, 329, 330, 335, 336; for the Lombards, Edictum Rotharis, c. 178 ff.: Walter, I, 710 ff., especially c. 182, which contains the form of betrothal. Compare this with the later ritual given by Canciani, II, 476, summarized by Weinhold, I, 341; Ludlow, in Dict. Christ. Ant., I, 203. See also Liutprandi leges, lib. ii, c. 7 ff., 88, 93, 99, 102, 106, 112, 115, 119, etc.: Walter, I, 759 ff.