[134] Cf. Cleveland, Woman under the English Law, p. 83.
[135] Shortland, Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders, p. 256. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa, p. 485. Post, Grundriss der ethnol. Jurisprudenz, i. 214. Cf. Numbers, xxxvi. 1 sqq.
[136] Supra, [i. 605], [606], [614]. Gill, Life in the Southern Isles, p. 46 sq.
[137] Dalager, op. cit. pp. 29, 31; Cranz, op. cit. i. 176 (Greenlanders). Munzinger, Die Sitten und das Recht der Bogos, p. 74. Hinde, op. cit. p. 51 (Masai). Of the Bāgdis of Bengal Mr. Risley expressly says (op. cit. p. 183) that the extra share which is given to the eldest son “seems to be intended to enable him to support the female members of the family, who remain under his care.”
[138] Pollock and Maitland, op. cit. ii. 274.
[139] Ibid. ii. 280.
[140] Risley, op. cit. p. 227 (Lusheis). Among the Angami Nagas the youngest son nearly always inherits his father’s house, because sons, when marrying, leave the paternal mansion and build houses of their own (ibid. p. 209). It has been suggested that the custom of ultimogeniture “would naturally arise during the latter stages of the pastoral period, when the elder sons would in the ordinary course of events have ‘set up for themselves’ by the time of the father’s death” (Jacobs, Studies in Biblical Archæology, p. 47; Gomme, quoted ibid. p. 47, n. 1; Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, ii. 70 sq.).
[141] Tickell, in Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, ix. pt. ii. 794, n.*
[142] Burton, Lake Regions of Central Africa, ii. 23 sq.
[143] Jolly, loc. cit. p. 85.