Note 895 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
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Poen. Theod., XVI: Thorpe, II, 11: "reddatur ei pecunia quam pro ipsa dedit, et tertia pars addatur;" also in Haddan and Stubbs, Councils, III, 201; and Wasserschleben, Bussordnungen, 216. The reading in Conf. Ecgb. is, "reddatur ei pecunia, quam pro illa dederat, et praeteria tertia pars hereditatis."—Thorpe, II, 149; Wasserschleben, 309. Cf. Ælf., 18: Thorpe, I, 73; Young, in Essays, 169.