A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3Howard, George Elliott
History
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3
Howard, George Elliott
Families; Marriage -- History
The modern literature of early German and old English marriage
is already very large. Among the more important writings of
the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are Gundling,
_De emptione uxorum, dote et morgengaba_ (Leipzig, 1731);
Ayrer, _Dissertatio de jure connubiorum apud veteres germanos_
(Göttingen, 1738); Hofmann, _Handbuch des deutschen Eherechts_
(Jena, 1789); Böhmer, _Ueber die Ehegesetze im Zeitalter
Karl des Grossen und seiner nächsten Regierungsnachfolger_
(Göttingen, 1826-27); Liebetrut, _Die Ehe nach ihrer
geschichtlichen Entwickelung_ (Berlin, 1834); Bosse, _Das
Familienwesen, oder Forschungen über seine Natur, Geschichte und
Rechtsverhältnisse_ (1835); Richecour, _Essai sur l'histoire et
la législation des formes requises pour la validité du mariage_
(Paris, 1856); Smith, "De la famille chez les Burgondes,"
in _Mémoires lus à la Sorbonne_ (1864); and Eckhardt, "Das
Witthum oder Dotalitium und Vidualitium in ihrer historischen
Entwickelung," in _Zeitschrift für deutsches Recht_, X (437
ff.). But in the literature of recent years of first-rate
importance is Sohm's _Das Recht der Eheschliessung_ (Weimar,
1875), perhaps the most acute and able monograph ever written
on the subject; supplemented by his _Trauung und Verlobung_
(Weimar, 1876). The best extended treatise on the history of
the marriage form or contract is Friedberg's _Das Recht der
Eheschliessung_ (Leipzig, 1865). This was preceded by his "Zur
Geschichte der Eheschliessung," in _ZKR._, I, 362-91; III,
147-86 (Berlin and Tübingen, 1861-63); and followed, in his
controversy with Sohm on the character of the betrothal, by his
_Verlobung und Trauung_ (Leipzig, 1876). The Theories of Sohm
and others are examined by Habicht, _Altdeutsche Verlobung_
(Jena, 1879); and, from the standpoint of northern custom, by
Lehmann, _Verlobung und Hochzeit_ (Munich, 1882); and Beauchet,
_Mariage dans le droit islandais du moyen age_ (Paris, 1887).
In this connection may be read Schroeder, _Geschichte des
ehelichen Güterrechts in Deutschland_ (Stettin, 1863-74);
his _Rechtsgeschichte_ (2d ed., Leipzig, 1894); as also
Brunner's very able _Rechtsgeschichte_ (Leipzig, 1887); Ficker,
_Untersuchungen zur Rechtsgeschichte_ (Innsbruck, 1891-99);
Heusler, _Institutionen des deutschen Privatrechts_ (Leipzig,
1885-86); Zoepfl, _Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte_ (Braunschweig,
1871-72); Siegel, _Rechtsgeschichte_ (3d ed., Leipzig, 1895);
Lamprecht, _Deutsche Geschichte_ (Vol. I, Berlin, 1891); Klein,
_Das Eheverlöbniss_ (Strassburg, 1881); and Galy, _La famille
à l'époque mérovingienne_ (Paris, 1901). For many illustrative
particulars should be consulted Grimm's _Rechtsalterthümer_
(Göttingen, 1854); the great work of Weinhold, _Die deutschen
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