[329] Lex Ripuariorum, _Til_., 48. Lex Angliorum et Werinorum, vi--_de alodibus_, 1: hereditatem defuncti filius, non filia suscipiat. Salic Law, _Tit_., 62: _de alodis_, 6: de terra vero Salica in mulierem nulla portio hereditatis transit, sed hoc virilis sexus adquirat, hoc est, filii in ipsa hereditate succedunt. Lex Saxonum, vii, 1: Pater aut mater defuncti filio, non filiae hereditatem relinquit. [330] Cf. Lex Angliorum et Werinorum, vi: _de alodibus_. [331] Ibid., vi, 8: post quintam autem (sc. generationem) filia ex toto, sive de patris sive de matris parte, in hereditatem succedat, et tunc demum hereditas ad fusum a lancea transeat. [332] Lex Salica, _Tit._, 62. Lex Ripuariorum, _Tit._, 56. [333] Cf. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 7 and 9. [334] Tacitus, _Germania_, 21. [335] Legis Liutprandi, ii, 7. [336] Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 5, I. [337] Lex Alemannorum, _Tit._, i. [338] Lex Baiuvariorum, _Tit._, i. [339] Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 20. [340] Edictum Rotharis, i, 121. [341] Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 13. [342] Cf. Capitula addita ad legem Alemannorum, 29. Lex Saxonum, viii, 2. [343] Cf. lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 11: maritus et uxor tunc sibi hereditario iure succedant, quando mulla affinitas usque ad septimum gradum de propinquis eorum vel parentibus inveniri poterit. See also Lex Burgundionum, 14, 1. [344] Lex Saxonum, ix. Lex Ripuariorum, 37, 2. [345] Lex Saxonum, viii. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 3, 3. Lex Burgundionum 85, 1, and 62, 1. [346] Lex Burgundionum, 42, 1; 62, 1; 74, 1. [347] Lex Baiuvariorum, xiv, 9, 1. [348] Ibid., xiv, 6. [349] For all this, see Lex Burgundionum, 24 and 62 and 74. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, Tit. 3. Lex Baiuvariorum, 14. Lex Alemannorum, 55 and 56. [350] Lex Wisigothorum, iii, 3, 1. [351] Lex Saxonum, iv. In the early days when the Great West of the United States was just being opened up and when society there was in a very crude state, a horse thief was regularly hanged; but murder was hardly a fault. [352] Lex Burgundionum, 47, 1 and 2. The guilty man was put to death. [353] Lex Salica, _Tit._, 23. [354] Id, _Tit._, 28. [355] Lex Baiuvariorum, _Tit._, xiii, 2. [356] Cf. lex Salica, _Tit._, 61--a very curious account of formalities to be observed in such a case. [357] It was deemed sufficient for a male relative, say, the father, to assert the innocence of the woman under solemn oath: for it was thought that he would be unwilling to do this if he knew the woman was guilty and so incur eternal Hell-fire as a punishment for perjury. An example of this solemn ceremony is told interestingly by Gregory of Tours, 5, 33. A woman at Paris was charged by her husband's relatives with adultery and was demanded to be put to death. Her father took a solemn oath that she was innocent. Far from being content with this, the husband's kin began a fight and the matter ended in a wholesale butchery at the church of St. Dionysius.