Note 891 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
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Pollock and Maitland, Hist. of Eng. Law, II, 363. Thus Friedberg, op. cit., 21, 22, regards "Verlobung, Trauung, und Beilager" as acts each of which is an element in the "joining in marriage"—all three "eheschliessende Vorgänge." Cf. Sohm, Eheschliessung, 88, 89; Zoepfl, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, III, 5; Siegel, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, 455-57; Klein, Das Eheverlöbniss, 130 ff., who reviews the whole subject, citing authorities; and Hanauer, Coutumes matrimoniales, 255 ff.