Note 86 — Chapter XI · HISTORY OF SEPARATION AND DIVORCE UNDER ENGLISH AND ECCLESIASTICAL LAW

Geffcken, op. cit., 33. Cf. in general Tacitus, Germania, c. 19; Grimm, Rechtsalt., 454; Freisen, Geschichte des can. Eherechts, 779; Weinhold, Deutsche Frauen, II, 25-27, who shows that the guilty woman's paramour might lawfully be slain by the husband when seized in the act.

For discussion of the customs of the early Germans regarding the punishment of adultery and summaries of the provisions of the folk-laws, the capitularies, and later legislation on the subject see Rosenthal, Rechtsfolgen des Ehebruchs, 40 ff.; and Bennecke, Die strafrechtliche Lehre vom Ehebruch, 82 ff. Of some service is Heller, Ueber die Strafe des Ehebruchs, 17 ff., passim.