Answer:
German society, like Roman, was based firmly in the family; but the German family was an extended one, the center of social organization, with relatives of various kinds included.
ii. In the German family the woman belonged to the man: to her father when young, then to her husband. Uncles or fathers arranged marriages for the good of the family. A widow could hold property without a male and adultery was viewed as pollution of the woman and her child. Even so, divorce was easy to obtain and women just went back to their fathers.
iii. German justice was more personal than Roman justice. Justice could lead to brutal fights in the street, so an alternative method was put in place. Fines for violations were called wergeld, which means "man money" and was based on the value of the individual involved.
