[781] Bancroft, op. cit., II, 672; Letourneau, op. cit., 288.
[782] So among the Santals (Dakotas): Letourneau, loc. cit.
[783] For this class of peoples see Post, Familienrecht, 250, 254-58; idem, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 436-39; Westermarck, op. cit., 526-29.
[784] Westermarck, op. cit., 527, 528: ap. Colquhoun, Amongst the Shans, 295.
[785] Westermarck, op. cit., 528: ap. Macdonald, Africana, I, 140.
[786] Westermarck, op. cit., 528, 529; Glasson, Le mariage civil et le divorce, 152 ff.; Unger, Die Ehe, 60; Plutarch's Lives (London, 1890), Solon, 68. Primitively the Grecian wife had little liberty in this regard; even later it was always difficult to enforce her right of divorce; and repudiation was regarded as a disgrace: Lecky, History of European Morals, II, 287, 289; Letourneau, op. cit., 304.
[787] Westermarck, op. cit., 528, 529; Waitz, Anthropologie, II, 389; Post, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 436. But in case of the Kafirs, the chief decides whether the woman has just cause: Post, op. cit., 438.
[788] "Wird die Frau misshandelt oder vernachlässigt, so kann sie die Lösung der Ehe verlangen; dies ist allgemeines Negerrecht."—Kohler, "Ueber das Negerrecht, namentlich in Kamerun," ZVR., XI, 441, 442. See also Henrici, "Das Recht der Epheneger," ibid., 135; Bastian, Rechtsverhältnisse, 179 (Gold Coast).
[789] Westermarck, op. cit., 528, 529: ap. Amír' Alí, Personal Law of the Mahommedans (London, 1880), chaps. xii ff.
"According to the Talmudic Law, the wife is authorized to demand a divorce if the husband refuses to perform his conjugal duty, if he continues to lead a disorderly life after marriage, if he proves impotent during ten years, if he suffers from an insupportable disease, or if he leaves the country forever."—Westermarck, 528; Glasson, op. cit., 149 ff. Consult also Amram, The Jewish Law of Divorce, 63-77, who gives an interesting discussion of the woman's power of divorce; and, besides the causes just named, mentions also "refusal to support," "apostasy," "wife-beating," when the wife is not at fault, and "false charge of ante-nuptial incontinence." Cf. Letourneau, op. cit., 303.