value set on female labour."[596] [592] On the bride-price in various countries see POST, _Familienrecht_, 181-201; WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 392-94; KRAUSS, _Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven_, 273 ff.; KOHLER, "Studien," _ZVR._, V, 338 ff.; WAKE, _Marriage and Kinship_, 191, 199 ff., 239 ff., 215, 218, 235; BUCH, _Die Wotjäken_, 49 ff. [593] POST, _op. cit._, 181, 183. [594] _Ibid._, 181. [595] KRAUSS, _Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven_, 275 ff. But see especially TURNER, _Slavisches Familienrecht_, 22, 24, who declares that the law of Black George was purely sumptuary, not dealing at all with the price of the bride, but with mere presents from the man's friends. The mistake, he says, originates in a wrong translation by Talvy, _Serbische Volkslieder_, II, Einleit., 2. Turner in general denies the former existence of wife-purchase among the Slavs, rejecting SCHLÖZER'S translation of _Nestor_, I, chap. 12, 124 ff., which passage is an important source usually cited in favor of former purchase. KOVALEVSKY, _Mod. Customs and Anc. Laws of Russia_, 26 ff., however, follows the usual interpretation of Nestor and the law of Black George, giving examples of alleged wife-purchase and its survivals. _Cf._ POST, _op. cit._, 182, 183; and WESTERMARCK'S chapter on "Marriage and Celibacy," especially, 145. [596] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 392; POST, _op. cit._, 180 ff., 188. Custom differs as to the time of payment. Sometimes the full price must be given before the nuptials; often the bride is received on credit, and the price subsequently paid in instalments. In case of credit the wife with the children usually remains with her father, and the husband does not gain absolute ownership or control until the debt is paid in full.[597] [597] _Ibid._, 193-99; KOHLER, "Studien," _ZVR._, V, 338, 350, 351; WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 394; KOHLER, in _ZVR._, VII, 371.