Note 882 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE

Sohm, Eheschliessung, 155, 100 n. 60, 317. Schroeder, Güterrecht, I, 53, 54, 96, reverses the meaning of these passages; and holds that the phrase "in case she choose his will" refers to the weotuma; and the phrase "if she live longer than he," to the morning-gift. But see Pollock and Maitland, II, 363, who render the last clause by "dower," and the first by "morning-gift."