[852] OPET, _Die erbrechtliche Stellung der Weiber in der Zeit der Volksrechte_, 82 ff. This monograph may be compared with that of AMIRA, _Erbenfolge und Verwandtschaftsgliederung nach dem altniederdeutschen Rechte_, 83, 84. ROEDER, _Die Familie bei den Angelsachsen_, 15 ff., takes a conservative position. In general on old English marriage see PHILLIPS, _Geschichte des angelsächs. Rechts_, 129-33; DAVOUD-OGHLOU, II, 355-60; YOUNG, in _Essays_, 163 ff.; FRIEDBERG, _Eheschliessung_, 33 ff.; LINGARD, _Anglo-Saxon Church_ (2d ed.), I, 6 ff.; TRAILL, _Social England_, I, 215, 216; GIDE, _Étude sur la cond. privée de la femme_, 237, 196 ff.; POLLOCK AND MAITLAND, _Hist. of Eng. Law_, II, 362 ff.; BUCKSTAFF, in _Annals_, IV, 233; LUDLOW, in _Dict. of Christ. Ant._, I, 203, 143. There is also a good discussion by GLASSON, _Hist. du droit et des inst. de l'Angleterre_, I, 104-33; an account of the Anglo-Saxon bride in GRUPEN, _De uxore theotisca_, 221-55; interesting details in THRUPP, _The Anglo-Saxon Home_, 19-76; WRIGHT, _Hist. of Doms. Manners and Sentiments_, 53-56; TURNER, _Hist. of Manners and Landed Property of Anglo-Saxons_, 108, 113-15; and JEAFFRESON, _Brides and Bridals_, I, 32-45, who gives an interesting discussion regarding the Anglo-Saxon woman, as a chattel subject to sale, even in the historical period. "To these ancient arrangements for the transference of women from their fathers to their matrimonial suitors, and for protecting the property in them against nefarious aggressors," he declares, "must be referred the barbarous spirit in which the law still persists in regarding a certain class of atrocious outrages on morality as mere infringements of private right. We reflect with astonishment on the conduct of our distant progenitors, who legalized traffic in womankind, but we persevere, so far as law is concerned, in dealing with the seducer as though his offence were nothing graver than a violation of personal privileges, for which a payment of money to one of the injured persons is the appropriate penalty" (I, 42, 43).