CHAPTER XX. Political organization: Customs regulating domestic

relations and family property; procedure for the attainment of justice

Family property

Rules of inheritance

Rules governing the relations of the sexes

Moral offenses

Marriage contracts and payments

Illegitimate children

Extent of authority of father and husband

Residence of the husband

Crimes and their penalties

Crimes

The private seizure

Penalties for minor offenses

Customary procedure

Preliminaries to arbitration

General features of a greater arbitration

Determination of guilt

By witnesses

By oaths

By the testimony of the accused

By ordeals

The hot-water ordeal

The diving ordeal

The candle ordeal

By circumstantial evidence

Enforcement of the sentence

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