[831] _Cf._ the remarks of WAKE, _op. cit._, 218; and compare RATZEL, _Hist. of Mankind_, II, 434 (Zulus); and SARASIN, _Die Weddas von Ceylon_, I, 458, 468, 469. The rules governing the division of property are important in this connection; for, as Westermarck suggests, the selfish interests of the husband "prevent him from recklessly repudiating his wife. In many instances divorce implies for the man a loss of fortune."[832] In rare cases he is obliged to provide for the wife's support even after the separation.[833] Often, as already seen, the woman receives back her dotal gift and whatever she brought with her at the marriage; while frequently the husband is obliged to surrender a portion or all of the common property. Thus "among the Karens, if a man leaves his wife, the rule is that the house and all the property belong to her, nothing being his but what he takes with him. Among the Manipuris, according to Colonel Dalton, a wife who is put away without fault on her part, takes all the personal property of the husband, except one drinking cup and the cloth round his loins;" and "similar rules prevail among the Galela, and in the Marianne Group."[834] [832] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 531. [833] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 19, gives examples. [834] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 531, and the authorities cited in the notes. The same influence was a check upon divorce in Athens: LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 304. The conservative influence of property is even more marked in connection with wife-purchase--a powerful deterrent of hasty divorce. In the case of a sale-marriage, even in the weakened form of dower to the woman, the guilty or responsible party usually suffers a decided disadvantage from the separation. The man who repudiates his wife without just cause, as already shown, may not only forfeit his right to reclaim the bride-money, and incur other losses on the division of the property; but often, particularly where the maternal system of kinship prevails, he may have to surrender his children as well; and the woman who unjustly leaves her husband may lose all that she brought with her into the home or compel her kindred to restore the purchase price.[835]