[819] See especially on Arabian divorce, Smith, Kinship and Marriage, 91 ff., who emphasizes the effect of wife-purchase. Compare Post, Familienrecht, 263. Among the Kabyles of Algiers for mistreatment the woman has the right of "insurrection;" she may return to her father's house; but without the consent of her husband she cannot remarry: Letourneau, L'évolution du mariage, 295. Cf. Hanoteau et Letourneux, Kabylie, II, 159, 164, 177 ff. The custom of insurrection appears to be general in Islam: Hellwald, Die mensch. Familie, 409.
[820] Smith, op. cit., 93.
[821] Klemm, Kulturgeschichte, IV, 151; Post, Familienrecht, 263, 264.
[822] See the interesting proofs for various African tribes in Post, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 454-57.
[823] Ibid., 455. Sometimes, as among the equatorial tribes of West Africa, the widow shows a repugnance to second marriage: returning to her family, she never marries again: ibid., 456.
[824] Post, Familienrecht, 265; idem, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 453, 454.
[825] Thus in Dawan (West Timor), when peace is made between the divorced couple, the party who caused the separation must pay the parents of the other five swine and five pieces of linen. A year's interval must elapse with the African Peulhs of Futa-Jallon. In Unyoro (Africa) the reunion is celebrated by slaughtering a beef; and among the Berbers of Dongola the divorced man gives the woman two pieces of cotton stuff: Post, Familienrecht, 265; idem, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 453.
[826] Kohler, "Das Recht der Azteken," ZVR., XI, 61; Cf. also Klemm, Kulturgeschichte, V, 35; Post, Familienrecht, 265.
[827] Starcke, Primitive Family, 258, 259.
[828] For examples see Friedrichs, "Familienstufen und Eheformen," ZVR., X, 251, 252.