to put away his wife for certain specified crimes;[82] or, indeed, without assigning any cause whatever, though in that case he might suffer serious disadvantage with respect to property.[83] [Footnote 79: GEFFCKEN, _op. cit._, 33, 34, 43, 44. With this view JEAFFRESON, _Brides and Bridals_, II, 295, 296, agrees: The Anglo-Saxon wife, he says, could be repudiated at will by her "master." But many writers hold that divorce by mutual consent is recognized in the ancient Teutonic law. Thus HEUSLER, _Institutionen_, II, 291, 292, declares that there was absolute liberty of separation by agreement, and that one-sided divorce (by _Kündigung_) was very restricted. A similar opinion is held by ZOEPFL, _Deutsche Rechtsg._, III, 37, 38; POLLOCK AND MAITLAND, _Hist. of English Law_, II, 390; GLASSON, _Le mariage civil et le divorce_, 185 ff., 195; FREISEN, _Geschichte des can. Eherechts_, 779-81; LOENING, _Geschichte des deut. Kirchenrechts_, II, 617; SCHROEDER, _Rechtsgeschichte_, I, 174. In general, _cf._ BRUNNER, _Rechtsgeschichte_, 302 ff.; WEINHOLD, _Deutsche Frauen_, II, 43 ff.; GRIMM, _Rechtsalt._, 454; WALTER, _Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte_, I, 134-36; GLASSON, _Histoire du droit et des inst. de l' Angleterre,_ I, 119, 120.] [Footnote 80: For examples among Franks and Alamanni see MEYRICK, in _Dict. Christ. Ant._, II, 1111.] [Footnote 81: GEFFCKEN, _op. cit._, 34, 43, 44. "Das erste Volksrecht, welches die freiwillige Scheidung ganz analog dem römischen _divortium communi consensu_ gestattet, ist der seiner Entstehung nach in die erste Hälfte des 7. Jahrhunderts fallende _pactus Alamannorum_."--_Ibid._, 44. The first formulary (_libellum_ or _libellus repudii_) for a divorce by mutual consent in the folk-laws appears in the _formulae Andegavenses_, a collection made in the last quarter of the same century: _ibid._, 44; also BRUNNER, _Rechtsgeschichte_, 403, 404; FREISEN, _op. cit._, 778, 779. The following formulary for such a divorce is taken from Marculf (II, 30) by GLASSON, _op. cit._, 186, though it may have been intended for the Roman population living on Frankish territory: "Idcirco dum et inter illo et conjuge sua ... discordia regnat ... placuit utriusque voluntas ut se a consortio separare deberent.... Propterea has epistolas inter se uno tenore conscriptas fieri et adfirmare decreverunt, ut unusquisque ex ipsis, sive ad servitium Dei in monasterio aut ad copulam matrimonii se sociare voluerit, licentiam habeat."] [Footnote 82: _Lex Visig._, III, 6, c. 2 (adultery); _Lex Burgund._, 34, 3 (_adultera_, _maleficia_, _sepulcrorum violatrix_): FREISEN, _op. cit._, 779.] [Footnote 83: _Pact. Alam._, III, 3; _Lex Bajuw._, VII, 14; _Lex Burg._, tit. 34, c. 2; _Lex Vis._, III 6, c. 2; FREISEN, _op. cit._, 779.]