Note 892 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
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The views as to the legal "content" of the betrothal are summarized by Habicht, Altdeutsche Verlobung, 30. Rive, Vormundschaft, I, 243, holds that betrothal was not essential to a legal marriage; while Pardessus, Loi salique (Paris, 1843), regards it as legally requisite for a marriage, which, however, actually began only with the tradition of the bride.