Note 906 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
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Habicht, Altdeutsche Verlobung, 26, 27. The Saxon and Lombard laws allow the widow to appeal to her own family in case her legal tutor—that is, her deceased husband's family—will not consent: Habicht, 17, 18. On the freedom of the English widow see Roeder, Die Familie bei den Angelsachsen, 26 ff.