A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[799] Post, Familienrecht, 260-62; idem, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 447, 448; idem, Grundlagen, 276, 277.

[800] So in the Malay Rawas, where kinship is cognatic. Here, in case of an odd number, the undivided child is left temporarily with the mother, but the father has the right on the payment of the equivalent of 8 reichsthaler to claim the child when it no longer needs the mother's care: Post, Familienrecht, 261, 262.

[801] Krauss, Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven, 297.

[802] When the divorce is by common consent: Kohler, in ZVR., VI, 172; Post, Familienrecht, 262. For African examples see Post, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 449.

[803] Pratz, Hist. de la Louisiane, II, 387.

[804] Krauss, Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven, 295, 296.

[805] Ibid., 295. Sometimes all the children go to the father or to the house-community, the mother receiving back the dotal gift: ibid., 296, 297.

[806] Post, Grundlagen, 277; idem, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 448 ff.; idem, Familienrecht, 262, 263.

[807] Thus in Morocco the husband who puts away his wife must keep the children; Post, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 449.

[808] Ibid., I, 448. Cf. Letourneau, L'évolution du mariage, 286.