[430.1] i. N. Ind. N. and Q., 82.
[430.2] The provisions of the Irish laws are carefully analysed, D’Arbois, i. Droit Celt.
[430.3] Professor Kovalevsky, in the interesting paper mentioned ante, [p. 230] note, which he read to the British Association at Oxford last year, gave some account of the Lex Barbarorum of Daghestan, a code written down in the last century, but embodying the ancient customs of the Chevsurs, Pschavs and Touchains of Daghestan, who speak a dialect of Georgian. The population is organised in gentes, called touchoum; and every touchoum incurs joint responsibility for the acts of its members. “Consanguinity,” says the professor, “to the remotest degree makes a man jointly responsible.… In case of murder or wounding, not only the trespasser but each one of the members of his touchoum, or gens, has to expect vengeance on the part of the touchoum to which the victim belonged. The same mutual responsibility exists in the case of forcible entry.” It is noteworthy that each touchoum claims descent from some mythical ancestor.
[431.1] Bartels, 205, quoting some writer I have not traced. The want of exact references is too frequently a serious blot on German scholarship. Dr. Bartels is shamefully guilty in this respect.
[432.1] Dyer, 171, quoting a paper by Mr. Chanter in ii. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association (1867), 39.
[432.2] Prof. Mikhailovskii, in xxiv. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 126.
[432.3] Featherman, Nigr., 134, citing A Walk across Africa, by J. A. Grant (1803).
[433.1] v. Rep. Bur. Ethn., 426.
[433.2] vii. Rep. Bur. Ethn., 338, 350, 346.
[434.1] ii. Sax. Leechd., 136.