Note 914 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
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Weinhold, op. cit., 343; Schroeder, Rechtsgeschichte, 700, note; Siegel, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, 453, who ascribes the practice to the imitation of the court manners. Even now in the English ceremonial only the bride receives a ring, consistently with its origin in the arrha. Cf. Friedberg, op. cit., 38, notes.