Note 905 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
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These codes sometimes fixed a term within which a widow may not marry, but a second marriage is treated as entirely legal: Lex salica, c. 44: Behrend, 57-59; Lex saxonum, tit. vii, 3, 6: Walter, Corp. juris germ., I, 387; Lex wisigothorum, lib. iii, tit. 2, c. 1, tit. 4, c. 2, 7: Walter, I, 470, 471, 477, 478; Lex burgund., tit. 24, c. 1, tit. 52: Walter, I, 316, 330; Edictum Rotharis, cc. 178, 182, 188: Walter, I, 710, 711, 714; Æthelberht, 76; Æthelred, V, 21; Canute, 73, 74: Schmid, Gesetze, 8, 224, 310, 312. Cf. Habicht, Altd. Verlobung, 16 ff.; Sohm, Eheschliessung, 63, who differ as to the interpretation of the much-disputed c. 44, lex sal. de reipus; Grimm, Rechtsalt., 452; Schroeder, Güterrecht, I, 56, 57.