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
[797] So in case of divorce among the Omahas, where, as
DORSEY believes, "father-right has succeeded
mother-right," the woman cannot take the children with her if the
man is unwilling; although in practice they "are sometimes taken
by their mother, and sometimes by her mother or their father's
mother."--"Omaha Sociology," _III. Rep. of Bureau of Eth._, 225,
262.
In China a divorce completely dissolves the marriage; the woman
returns to her family, if it will receive her; the children
remain with the father; and the purchase price is returned
to him, unless his conduct has caused the divorce. When her
family declines to receive the woman she becomes _sui juris_:
MÖLLENDORFF, _Das chin. Familienrecht_, 34.
[798] See chap. i, 21 ff., above.
[799] POST, _Familienrecht_, 260-62; _idem_,
_Afrikanische Jurisprudenz_, I, 447, 448; _idem_, _Grundlagen_,
276, 277.
[800] So in the Malay Rawas, where kinship is cognatic. Here, in
case of an odd number, the undivided child is left temporarily
with the mother, but the father has the right on the payment of
the equivalent of 8 reichsthaler to claim the child when it no
longer needs the mother's care: POST, _Familienrecht_,
261, 262.
[801] KRAUSS, _Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven_, 297.
[802] When the divorce is by common consent: KOHLER, in
_ZVR._, VI, 172; POST, _Familienrecht_, 262. For African
examples see POST, _Afrikanische Jurisprudenz_, I, 449.
[803] PRATZ, _Hist. de la Louisiane_, II, 387.
[804] KRAUSS, _Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven_, 295, 296.
[805] _Ibid._, 295. Sometimes all the children go to the father
or to the house-community, the mother receiving back the dotal
gift: _ibid._, 296, 297.
[806] POST, _Grundlagen_, 277; _idem_, _Afrikanische
Jurisprudenz_, I, 448 ff.; _idem_, _Familienrecht_, 262, 263.
[807] Thus in Morocco the husband who puts away his wife must
keep the children; POST, _Afrikanische Jurisprudenz_, I,
449.
[808] _Ibid._, I, 448. _Cf._ LETOURNEAU, _L'évolution du
mariage_, 286.
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