Note 900 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE

That free marriage sometimes occurred is, of course, a conjecture. But see Dargun, Mutterrecht und Raubehe, 24 ff.; and Kohler, in ZVR., VI, 321, for the alleged survival of marriage ohne Mundium, which they assume to be a survival of Mutterrecht. This assumption, of course, is doubtful. Cf. Unger, Die Ehe, 105, 106. See chap. iv, above.