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fale, and the difficulty enhanced by the neceflity of paying the full
price upon the fpot, it is probable that the cuftom will in a great
meafure ceafe, and though not pofitively, be virtually abolifhed*
Nor can a rawfuit follow from any future joojoor.
-" The addat, or cuftom, of the femundo majayo or maredeeko, to be paid
by the hufband to the wife's family upon the marriage taking place,
is fixed at twenty dollars and a buffaloe, for fuch as can afford it;
and at ten dollars and a goat, for the poorer clafs of people.
" Whatever may be acquired by either party during the fubfiftence of
the marriage, becomes joint property, and they are jointly liable to
debts incurred, if by mutual confent. Should either contradt debts
without the knowledge and confent of the other, the party that contracts,,
muft alone bear them, in cafe of a divorce.
" If either party infill, or both agree in it, a divorce muft follow..
No other power can feparate them. The effects, debts, and credits
in all cafes to be equally divided. If the man infifls upon the divorce,
he pays a charre of twenty dollars to the wife's family, if he
obtained her a virgin; if a widow, ten dollars. If the woman infills,
on the divorce, no charro is to be paid. If both agree in it, the man
pays half the charro.
u If a man married by femundo dies—Vide" Inheritance.'* $
u If a man carries off a woman with her confent, and is willing either
to pay her price at once by joojoor, or marry her by femundo, as rhe father
or relations pleafe, they cannot reclaim the woman, and the marriage
takes place.
" If a man carries off a girl under age (which is determined by her not
having her ears bored, and teeth filed—booloom betenday, bedabong)
though with her own confent, he pays, exclufive of the addat joojoor,
or femundo, twenty dollars, if flie be the daughter of a pambarab; and
ten dollars for the daughter of any other, whether the marriage takes
place or not.
"If