See further on Chinese divorce and marriage, Legge, Life and Teachings of Confucius, 106, passim; Huc, Chinese Empire, II, 218-20, 262, 263; Wake, Marriage and Kinship, 229-35.
[772] Kohler, "Studien aus dem japanischen Recht," ZVR., X, 449. Cf. Wake, op. cit., 233, note; Westermarck, op. cit., 525; Hellwald, Die mensch. Familie, 383-86; Grosse, Die Formen der Familie, 228-31.
[773] Kohler, "Das Recht der Azteken," ZVR., XI, 60; Klemm, Kulturgeschichte, V, 35. Among the Aztec Otomis the parties could separate after the first night; but, possibly, this is a case of proof-marriage; and in Michoacan the same rule prevailed, if they swore that they had not "seen one another": Kohler, loc. cit., 61. The divorce laws of the Chins or Khyengs, in farther India, are particularly interesting; and in some respects they are similar in principle to those of the Chinese and Aztecs: Kohler, "Das Recht der Chins," ZVR., VI, 186 ff., 191 ff.
[774] Cf. Spencer, Principles of Sociology, I, 722, 723; Mason, Woman's Share in Primitive Culture, 229, for suggestive remarks in this connection. Westermarck, op. cit., 526-29, discusses this topic with characteristic minuteness, giving in a note a list of peoples, with authorities, among whom the wife has the right of divorce absolutely or on conditions.
[775] So in Tahiti, the Sandwich Islands, the Marianne and Caroline groups, the Indian Archipelago, in Africa, and elsewhere; see the examples of free divorce at the option of either party and the authorities already mentioned above. Cf. Letourneau, op. cit., 287.
[776] Bancroft, Native Races, I, 277.
[777] Ibid., 412; Morgan, Ancient Society, 454 (Iroquois); Letourneau, op. cit., 288.
[778] Westermarck, op. cit., 527: ap. Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, IV, 223 ff.
[779] Westermarck, op. cit., 527: ap. Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, IV, 214. But it appears to be a point of honor for the abandoned husband to avenge himself by killing someone: Bancroft, op. cit., I, 512; Letourneau, op. cit., 288.
[780] Westermarck, op. cit., 527.