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186 • The Making of a German Constitution24. Dieter Grimm, ‘Die Zeit der Begründung von Verfassungsstaat und BürgerlichemRecht, 1789–1815’, in Coing (ed.), Handbuch, p. 17.25. Kathleen Canning, Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies,Class and Citizenship (2006), pp. 145–63.26. Ibid., p. 153.27. Rudolf Jhering, Der Kampf ums Recht (1872).28. Geyer, ‘Der Kampf ums Recht’, Der Gerichtssaal, 25 (1873), pp. 1–38.29. Hübner, Germanic Private Law, pp. 591–2.30. The notion of the ‘age of the folk laws’ was derived from Jacob Grimm’s mythologicalmusings about an ancient German free epoch and should be consideredin this light.31. Hübner, Germanic Private Law, p. 623.32. Ibid.33. Ibid.34. Ibid.35. Ibid., pp. 623–4.36. Ibid., pp. 626–7.37. Ibid.38. Ibid.39. Ibid., p. 627.40. Ibid.41. Ibid., pp. 627–8.42. Ibid.43. Ibid.44. Ibid.45. Ibid., p. 629.46. Ibid., pp. 629–30.47. Ibid., p. 630.48. Georg Beseler, Ueber die Stellung des römischen Rechts zu dem nationalenRecht der germanischen Völker (1836).49. Ibid.50. Hübner, Germanic Private Law, p. 622.51. Ibid.52. Gottlieb Planck’s letter was not in the file; however, it is referenced in all ofthe responses. See, for example, the cover letter for the Prussian report: AdolfLeonhardt to Herr Reichkanzler Fürst von Bismarck (30 August 1876), in ActaBetreffend: Die Mittheilung der Bundes Regierungen ueber das eheliche Gueterrecht(January 1876–April 1877), Bundesarchiv Berlin file no. 30.01 4009. Allof the state reports on marital property relations are in this file, and henceforthonly the report and not the file will be referenced.53. See, for example, the cover letter for the Kingdom of Saxony’s report from theDresden office to the Reichskanzler Amt, dated 12 June 1876, in ibid.54. Evans, Feminist Movement in Germany, p. 12.