There are no tests to which he is subjected as proof of his manhood.
A woman may speak in a court of trial, for defence of herself or friends. She may also be summoned as a witness, but she has no political rights.
Aged persons are not put to death, to escape the care of them; they are reasonably well provided for.
III. Succession to Property and Authority.
Only men inherit. The children of sisters do not inherit unless all the children of the brothers are dead.
Slaves do not inherit.
“Chieftains” (those chosen to rule) and “kings” (those chosen to the office) inherit more than their brothers, even though the ruling one be the younger.
A woman does not inherit at any time or under any circumstances, nor hold property in her own right, even if she has produced it by her own labor.
There is no supremacy in regard to age in the division of property. The things to be inherited are women (the widows), goods, house, and slaves. An equal division, as far as it is possible, is made of all these.