For adultery committed after the mommon (first ceremony) and before the bango (second ceremony)

For the Wealthy

Na-onom or “six”fine

Divisions of the fineArticle exactedAppraisal
1.Pu-u1 death blanket₱8.00
2.Haynub1 kettle5.00
3.Natauwinan4 irons1.00
4.Natauwinan4 irons1.00
5.Natuku3 irons.50
6.Natuku3 irons.50
Liwa (fee of the go-between)1 ceremonial clout2.00
Total,₱18.00

For the MiddleClass

Na-onom or “six”fine

Divisions of the fineArticle exactedAppraisal
1.Pu-u1 kettle₱5.00
2.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
3.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
4.Natuku1 kettle.50
5.Natuku1 kettle.50
6.Na-oha1 kettle.20
Liwa (fee of the go-between)1 natauwinan1.00
Total,₱9.20

For the Poor

Na-onom or “six”fine

Divisions of the fineArticle exactedAppraisal
1.Pu-u1 kettle₱2.00
2.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
3.Natuku1 kettle.50
4.Natuku1 kettle.50
5.Nunbadi2 irons.40
6.Na-oha2 irons.20
The go-between takes the first natukulisted above
Total,₱4.60

For adultery committed after the bango (second ceremony) and before the bubun (final ceremony)

For the Wealthy

Hin-bakid or “ten”fine

Divisions of the fineArticle exactedAppraisal
1.Pu-u2 death blankets₱16.00
2.Haynub1 death blanket8.00
3.Haynub1 death blanket4.00
4.Haynub1 death blanket4.00
5.Haynub1 kettle4.00
6.Haynub1 kettle2.00
7.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
8.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
9.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
10.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
Liwa (fee of the go-between)1 kettle5.00
Total,₱47.00

For the MiddleClass

Hin-bakid or “ten”fine

Divisions of the fineArticle exactedAppraisal
1.Pu-u1 death blanket₱8.00
2.Haynub1 kettle5.00
3.Haynub1 kettle2.00
4.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
5.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
6.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
7.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
8.Natuku1 kettle.50
9.Natuku1 kettle.50
10.Na-oha1 kettle.20
Liwa (fee of the go-between)1 kettle4.00
Total,₱24.20

For the Poor

Na-onom or “six”fine

Divisions of the fineArticle exactedAppraisal
1.Pu-u1 kettle₱5.00
2.Haynub1 kettle2.00
3.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
4.Natauwinan1 kettle1.00
5.Natuku1 kettle.50
6.Nunbadi1 kettle.40
Liwa (fee of the go-between)1 kettle2.00
Total,₱11.90

For adultery committed after the bubun (final ceremony) the penalty is doubled for the higher classes, and increased to a fine of “ten” for persons of the lower class. That is, a poor man pays for adultery after the bubun what a middle-class man would pay for adultery before the bubun.

For adultery in the aggravated degree known as hokwit (see [sec. 94]) the fines just mentioned are doubled; so that a wealthy man would pay 188 pesos, a middle-class man 96.80 pesos, and a poor man 48.40 pesos.

Circumstances Which Affect Penalty

Certain circumstances, namely, criminal responsibility, alienship, kinship, confession, and the relative rank of offender and offended, affect penalty, either as to its severity or as to the likelihood of its being inflicted at all.

76. Moral turpitude not a factor.—Moral turpitude, which plays no small part in our own law in determining punishment, seems not to enter into the consideration of Ifugao law. Thus, such crimes as incest between brother and sister, parricide, matricide, fraticide, and treason against one’s family, all go unpunished. Even the betrayal of a co-villager into the hands of the enemy subjects the offender to only a third degree of likelihood of being punished (see [sec. 80]). These crimes probably go unpunished in accordance with the following correlated fundaments of Ifugao society: Legal procedure is conducted by and between families; the family unit is the most precious thing in Ifugao social life; family unity must, at all hazards, be preserved. In the case of a murder accomplished by treachery, as for example, the killing of a guest, the moral turpitude involved might perhaps hasten punishment—it might even increase its severity in that the kin of the murdered person might retaliate on a greater number of those concerned in the murder. But such an abuse of hospitality appears never to have occurred.