Note 863 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
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Sohm, Eheschliessung, 28-32, maintains this view against Schroeder, Güterrecht, I, 39, 40, 55, and others, who regard the arrha as a symbolical payment—a Scheinpreis or symbolischer Muntschatz. Cf. Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 19; "Zur Gesch. der Eheschliessung," ZKR., I, 364 ff.