[BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE VI.--The leading sources for this chapter are, of course, the ancient folk-laws, drawn up after the wandering and settlement of the Teutonic peoples. Of these the most complete and the most primitive are the old English "codes," in Schmid's _Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen_ (Leipzig, 1858), until recently the best edition available; or in Thorpe's _Ancient Laws and Institutes of England_ (8vo, 2 vols.; folio, 1 vol.; Record Commission, London, 1840), which, though not so well edited, has the advantage of an English version of the Anglo-Saxon texts. But Liebermann, in _Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen_ (Halle, 1898-), is placing in the hands of scholars a more complete and a thoroughly critical edition which must supersede that of Schmid. For Germany the _Leges barbarorum_ are contained in Walter's _Corpus juris germanici antiqui_ (3 vols.; Berlin, 1824); and in the later and better editions of the _Monumenta germaniae historica_, particularly the _Leges burgundionum_, edited by L. R. De Salis (4to; Hanover, 1892); the _Leges alamannorum_, edited by Karl Lehmann (4to; Hanover, 1888); and the general collection of _Leges_, edited by G. N. Pertz, H. Brunner, R. Sohm, and Karl Zeumer (5 vols., folio; Hanover, 1835-89). These laws are conveniently grouped according to subject by Davoud-Oghlou, _Histoire de la législation des anciens Germains_ (Berlin, 1845). Behrend, _Lex salica_ (Berlin, 1874), has a good edition of the laws of the Salian Franks. There are some passages of fundamental interest, notably the celebrated c. 18, in Tacitus's _Germania_; and an interesting proof of the surviving symbols of wife-purchase may be found in Fredegarius, _Gregorii Turon. historia francorum epitomata_ (Vol. IV of Guadet and Taranne's version of Gregory, 171-73, Paris, 1838; or in Vol. II of Giesebrecht's translation, 273-75, Leipzig, n. d.). An old English betrothal (_beweddung_) ritual of surpassing interest is preserved in the collections of Liebermann, Schmid, and Thorpe referred to; and the later development of the German betrothal ceremony is illustrated by the curious Swabian ritual of the twelfth century, first published by Massmann in _Rheinisches Museum für Jurisprudenz_, III (281 f.), as also in his _Fluchformularen_ (179); and later in Friedberg's "Zur Geschichte der Eheschliessung," _ZKR._, I, 369, 370; in the same author's _Eheschliessung_ (26, 27); and in Sohm's _Eheschliessung_ (319, 320).