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Page 466 - ... by a special payment) until she has performed the last rites required by custom at the Gawai Antu (spirit feast). If she do she is fined by the relatives of the deceased, for this is a slight upon his memory. The amount of fine is just the same as if he were still alive and she had abandoned him for another ; and her new husband is fined at the same time for seduction. The fact is, a widow is regarded as belonging to her deceased husband until she is formally freed from him by the feast of the...
Page 267 - It is very difficult to obtain admission that a particular child has been adopted and is not the actual offspring of the parents ; and this seems to be due, not so much to any desire to conceal the facts as to the completeness of the adoption, the parents coming to regard the child as so entirely their own that it is difficult to find words which will express the difference between the adopted child and the offspring. This is especially the case if the woman has actually suckled the child.
Page 234 - In dit geval behoort het oudste kind aan de moeder en is slaaf, het tweede volgt den vader en is vrij , het derde komt weder aan de moeder toe en is slaaf , het vierde is het aandeel van den vader en is vrij, enz.
Page 82 - Adulteries were not punishable corporally. If the adulterer paid the aggrieved party the amount adjudged by the old men and agreed upon by them, then the injury was pardoned, and the husband was appeased and retained his honor. He would still live with his wife and there would be no further talk about the matter.
Page 19 - In this case not only would the children form part of the family to which their mother belonged, but the husband himself would become united to it, and would be required to labour for the benefit of his father-in-law.
Page 218 - Should the master be not satisfied with his slave, he is at liberty to sell him. When these people give or lend anything to one another, the favor must be repaid double, even if between parents and children, or between brothers. At times they sell their own children, when there is little need or necessity of doing so.
Page 168 - Her children belong to the father, and she has no right of appeal to the old men, except in cases of cruelty. Men with concubines do not suffer in the estimation of their fellows, but are considered clever to have won two or three women.
Page 70 - ... girls are taught to avoid all men except those nearly related to them. Until marriage, it is considered unmaidenly for them to raise their eyes or take any part or interest in their surroundings when men are present. This leads to an affectation of modesty which, however overstrained, deceives nobody. After marriage, a woman gets a considerable amount of freedom which she naturally values. In Perak a man, who tries to shut his womenkind up and prevent their intercourse with others and a participation...
Page 692 - De kinderen, in het huwelijk verwekt, behooren gelijkelijk aan beide ouders, zooals wij bij alle berichtgevers uitdrukkelijk vermeld vinden. Bij echtscheiding kunnen zij naar verkiezing den vader of de moeder volgen. Zijn zij nog klein, dan blijven zij voorloopig bij de moeder, totdat zij een voldoenden ouderdom hebben bereikt , om eene keuze tusschen de beide ouders te doen. Alleen in Mana worden , in een dergelijk geval, de kinderen voorloopig verdeeld , doch staat het hun later vrij, te kiezen,...
Page 703 - ... family; nor, outside Negri Sembilan, matrilineal in the sense of children belonging to the mother's tribe; the constitution of the family is parental, children belonging to both parents. The NinetyNine Laws of Perak give the practice obtaining there in the 1 8th century. "If the child of divorced parents is under nine years of age, it will live with the mother, if it is over nine, it can please itself whether it lives with its father or its mother, but a girl should live with her mother.