A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3Howard, George Elliott
History
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3
Howard, George Elliott
Families; Marriage -- History
[616] SMITH, _Kinship and Marriage_, 77 ff. He quotes
the following lines from the _Kâmil_, 270 ff.:
"Never let sister praise brother of hers: never let daughter
bewail a father's death;
"For _they_ have brought her where she is no longer a free woman,
and _they_ have banished her to the farthest ends of the
earth."
[617] SMITH, _op. cit._, 78, 79. _Cf._ on the Arabs,
LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 117; WESTERMARCK,
_op. cit._, 395; POST, _op. cit._, 191-93, _passim_;
especially KOHLER, "Studien," _ZVR._, V, 357 ff., and
the literature there cited; _idem_, "Ueber das vorislamitische
Recht," _ibid._, VIII, 241, 248, 259; and TORNAUW, "Das
Erbrecht nach den Verordnungen des Islams," _ibid._, V, 129-37;
FRIEDRICHS, "Das Eherecht des Islam," _ibid._, VII,
259-61, 243, 252, 272.
[618] SMITH, _op. cit._, 79.
[619] Deut. 27:29; _cf._ LICHTSCHEIN, _Die Ehe nach
mosaisch-talmudischer Auffassung_, 10.
[620] Ruth 4:10; Hosea 3:2. _Cf._ SMITH, _op. cit._, 79;
WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 395; and in general on Hebrew
matrimonial customs see BADER, _La femme biblique_,
1-225, 114, 115 (móhar).
[621] WAKE, _op. cit._, 237; WEILL, _La femme
juive_ (1874), 11, 12, 117 ff.
[622] LICHTSCHEIN, _Die Ehe_, 11, 12;
MIELZINER, _Jewish Law of Marriage and Divorce_, 77 ff.
This author's surmise that the symbolical marriage with money was
adopted under influence of the Roman _coemptio_ is, of course,
not well founded: _ibid._, 78 n. 2.
[623] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 395. Even in the days of
Abraham the purchase price is beginning to be transformed into
a dower: "And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and
jewels of gold, and raiment and gave them to Rebekah; he gave
also to her brother and to her mother precious things."--Gen.
24:53. _Cf._ WESTERMARCK, 408, and the authorities there
cited.
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