A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3Howard, George Elliott
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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3
Howard, George Elliott
Families; Marriage -- History
restored to the first husband; and this in such case he is entitled
to receive even when she has borne him children: for here "in all
cases the children belong to the father."[734]
[725] POST, _Familienrecht_, 75-79, 249-65; _idem_,
_Anfänge_, 20, 21; _idem_, _Afrikanische Jurisprudenz_, I, 320
ff., 434 ff.; _idem_, _Grundlagen des Rechts_, 267 ff.
[726] POST, _Familienrecht_, 250-58, enumerates six
classes of peoples according to the freedom of divorce: (1)
the marriage relation loose and dissoluble at the pleasure of
either party; (2) marriage indissoluble; (3) divorce only by
mutual consent; (4) divorce the right of the husband only; (5)
divorce the right of the wife; (6) divorce only on definite
grounds, these grounds either being the same for either spouse
or different for the man and the woman respectively. In the
text examples of the fifth group are given in connection with
the cases of divorce at the pleasure of either party; for
where the wife has the right to put away or leave the husband
when she likes, the husband, unless in very exceptional cases
(POST, _Grundlagen_, 271), appears to have the same
privilege with respect to the wife; hence Post's first and fifth
groups are practically the same.
In general on the first phase, see POST, _Afrikanische
Jurisprudenz_, I, 433-38; _idem_, _Grundlagen_, 267 ff.; _idem_,
_Familienrecht_, 249-51; LETOURNEAU, _L'évolution du
mariage_, 284 ff., 289, 290; BERNHÖFT, "Das Gesetz von
Gortyn," _ZVR._, VI, 430 ff., 434; WESTERMARCK, _Human
Marriage_, 518 ff.
[727] POST, _Afrikanische Jurisprudenz_, I, 436, 437.
The husband seems also to have absolute right of divorce:
LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 285.
[728] POST, _op. cit._, I, 437.
[729] Among the Mundingos the wife has an action against
the husband for abuse; in Soulimana she may leave him, if
the bride-presents are restored; while among the Krus in
such cases her relatives must repay double the purchase
price; WAITZ, _Anthropologie_, II, 119, 120. Among
the Charruas, where polygyny exists, the wife abandons the
husband if an unmarried man will take her: KLEMM,
_Kulturgeschichte_, II, 75.
[730] POST, _Familienrecht_, 251.
[731] _ibid._
[732] This is the conclusion of KOHLER, "Aus der
Praxis des buddhistischen Rechts in Birma," _ZVR._, VI, 389-91,
following the interesting decisions in JARDINE,
_Circulars (Civil and Criminal) of the Court of the Judicial
Commissioner of British Burma_, 1883 (Rangoon, 1884). _Cf._
also KOHLER, in _ZVR._, VI, 172; POST,
_Familienrecht_, 251; and WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 528.
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