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A Century of Promise • 18755. For more on Leonhardt see Werner Schubert, Entstehung und Quellen der Civilprozessordnungvon 1877 (1987).56. Adolf Leonhardt to Herr Reichskanzler Fürst von Bismarck (30 August 1876),in Bundesarchiv file no. 30.01 4009.57. Hübner, Germanic Private Law, p. 634.58. Ibid.59. Adolf Leonhardt to Herr Reichskanzler Fürst von Bismarck (30 August 1876),in Bundesarchiv file no. 30.01 4009.60. My discussion of Westphalia in the context of Prussian law deserves somequalification. The Herzogtum Westphalen had been a part of Hesse-Darmstadt(1803–1816), but was renamed Königreich Westphalen when it became a Frenchsatellite, under the leadership of Napoleon’s notorious brother Jèrôme between1807 and 1813. The Code civil was early, but in 1816 it became a Prussian provinceand subject to the ALR.61. Adolf Leonhardt to Herr Reichskanzler Fürst von Bismarck (30 August 1876),in Bundesarchiv file no. 30.01 4009.62. Ibid.63. Ibid.64. See Darstellung des im Königreiche Bayern bestehenden ehelichen Güterrechts(1877) in Bundesarchiv file no. 30.01 4009.65. Bericht des Gross Badische Staatsministerium in Carlsruhe zu demReichskanzler-Amt (1 February 1876), in Bundesarchiv file no. 30.01 4009.66. Ibid.67. André Burguière and François Lebrun, ‘The One Hundred and One Families ofEurope’, in André Burguière (ed.), A History of the Family, vol. 2, The Impact ofModernity (1996), pp. 70–1.68. Ibid.69. Ibid.70. Sabean, Property, Production and Family.71. Judith Hurwich, ‘Marriage Strategy among the German Nobility, 1400–1699’,Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 29/2 (1998), pp. 169–95.72. For more on how women’s changing economic position in Central Europe affectedthe balance of power in the family see Sabean, Property, Production andFamily; Benz, Fertility, Wealth and Politics; Wunder, He Is the Sun; and Goody,‘Inheritance, Property and Women’.73. ‘Kann nach gemeinen Rechten von den Weibern die Bürgschaft gültig in einemPrivat-Instrumente bestellt und darin auf die weiblichen Rechtswohlthaten verzichtetwerden oder nicht’, Juristische Zeitung für das Königreich Hannover, 4(1 April 1826).74. Ibid.75. Ibid.76. Ibid.77. Ibid.