We find this custom established in the formulas of Marculfus, in the codes of the laws of the barbarians, but chiefly in the law of the Ripuarians and the decrees of the kings of the first race, whence the capitularies on that subject in the second race were derived.
Haurrak aitaren legeari jarraitzen zitzaizkion, emazteak senarrarenari, alargunak beren legera itzultzen ziren, jareginek ugazabarena zuten.